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verb
adj
det
noun
verb
- limit in quality or quantity
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- subsist on a meager allowance
- (intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
- To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
- (transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
noun
adj
- characterized by good substantial quality
- financially dependable
- of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous
- uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks
- providing abundant nourishment
- acting together as a single undiversified whole
- meriting respect or esteem
- of one substance or character throughout
- not soft or yielding to pressure
- of the same color throughout
- of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial
- having length, breadth and thickness
- impenetrable for the eye
- of good quality and condition; solidly built
- entirely of one substance with no holes inside
- (of time) Entire, complete.
- (of drawn lines) Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
- Hearty; filling.
- (of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
- Large in size, quantity, or value.
- (slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
- Of a single color throughout.
- Sound; not weak.
- (US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured as a single solid, as the volumes of individual pieces added together without any gaps.
- Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
- (typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
- Strong or unyielding.
- United.
- (of rain) Continuous and heavy.
- Financially well off; wealthy.
- Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
noun
- matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure
- the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape
- a three-dimensional object, structurally rigid, usually resistant to changes of shape or volume
- (geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
- (in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.
- (informal) A favor.
- An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
- (chemistry) A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
adv
verb
- change in quality
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
noun
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
verb
- determine the essential quality of
- give a definition for the meaning of a word
- determine the nature of
- show the form or outline of
- decide upon or fix definitely
- To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
- To express the essential nature of something.
- To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
- To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
- To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
- (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.
noun
verb
adj
verb
- determine the essential quality of
- define clearly
- be specific about
- select something or someone for a specific purpose
- specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
- decide upon or fix definitely
- design or destine
- (transitive) To bring about a specific result.
- (transitive) To include in a specification.
- (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
noun
- A specified aspect or quality.
- (in a university) One of the divisions of instructions
- A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
- A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
- A part, portion, or subdivision.
- (often in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government
- (historical) A military subdivision of a country
- the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
- a specialized sphere of knowledge
- a specialized division of a large organization
noun
- A reduction in quality or quantity.
- A change of direction or a movement downwards.
- (automotive, cycling) A shift of a transmission into a lower gear, as dictated by heavier load on the engine, as for example when climbing a hill or strongly accelerating.
- A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle
- a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one
verb
- To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)
- (automotive, cycling) To shift (a car or bicycle) into a lower gear.
- To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- (automotive, cycling) To shift a transmission into a lower gear.
- To function at a lower rate; to slacken.
noun
- Quantity.
- (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.
- (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
- (countable, informal) An outfit, particularly a stylish one.
- (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
- (countable, informal) A person.
- (singular only, formal) A group of people.
- (countable, informal) A telephone number.
- (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
- (countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
- (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
- (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
- A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
- Something that numbs.
- A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
- An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number.
- a clothing measurement
- a select company of people
- a symbol used to represent a number
- a concept of quantity involving zero and units
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- an item of clothing
- the number is used in calling a particular telephone
- one of a series published periodically
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
- a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc.
- a numbered item in a series
- the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural)
adj
verb
- (transitive, usually with among) To classify or include (in a group of things)
- (transitive, with off) To enumerate or list, especially while assigning numbers to.
- (transitive, passive voice) To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.
- (intransitive, usually with among) To be classified or included (in a certain group or category of things).
- (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
- (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
- (transitive, with off) To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.
- place a limit on the number of
- put into a group
- give numbers to
- determine the number or amount of
- add up in number or quantity
- enumerate
noun
- Quantity.
- The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
- (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
- A bound book.
- (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
- Strength of sound: how loud it is.
- (cinematography) A sound stage film set that has walls of video monitors, substituting for an actual background, set structures, providing a changeable video matte painting. A set with a form of projected background, similar to legacy traditional rear projection and front projection sets.
- (bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
- (climbing, bouldering) A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
- A rounded mass or convolution.
- (cinematography) A green/blue-screen chromakey visual effects (“VFX”) sound stage surrounded by a multitude of filming cameras, to allow for virtual camera changes in post production, by filming the whole 3-D volume of a chromakey film set.
- (graph theory) The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
- (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
- A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
- A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
- the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
- a relative amount
- the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
- physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
- a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
verb
adj
- Varying in quality.
- Not uniform.
- Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- Not level or smooth.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd.
- not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
- not divisible by two
- (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
- lacking consistency
- variable and recurring at irregular intervals
verb
adj
noun
- Something offered at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.
- A bonus paid in addition to normal payments.
- (insurance) The amount to be paid for an insurance policy.
- An unusually high value.
- A prize or award.
- (finance) The amount by which a security's value exceeds its face value.
- the amount that something in scarce supply is valued above its nominal value
- payment for insurance
- a fee charged for exchanging currencies
- payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military
- a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc.
noun
- a suggestion of some quality
- a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
- the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- (theater) An understudy.
- (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
- (attributive, in names of species) White or pale.
- (cleaning) A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
- (quantum mechanics) An unphysical state in a gauge theory.
- Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of such a person.
- (attributive) Of a cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
- (espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.
- A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
- (Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
- (attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.
- A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefit.
- (writing) Ellipsis of ghostwriter.
- (uncountable, often capitalized) A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.
- (attributive) Abandoned.
- (computing, linguistics, attributive) A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.
- (by extension) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
- A dead person whose identity is stolen by another (see ghosting).
- A false image, for example in a photographic print or negative, or on a television screen or radar display, or in a telescope, caused by poor or double reception or reflection (from a lens or screen).
- (countable) Ellipsis of ghost pepper.
- (video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.
- (attributive) Remnant; remains.
- (attributive) Substitute.
- (computing) A copy of a file or record.
verb
- haunt like a ghost; pursue
- move like a ghost
- write for someone else
- (chiefly social media, slang) To stop communicating with (someone) on social media, though text messages, etc., without explanation, especially as a way of ending a relationship; hence, to end a relationship with (someone) by stopping all communication without explanation.
- Synonym of ghostwrite (“to write (a literary work or speech), or produce (an artistic work)), in the place of someone”); also, to carry out (an artistic performance) in the place of someone.
- (Internet) To forcibly disconnect (an IRC user) who is using one's reserved nickname.
- (graphical user interface) To gray out (a visual element) to indicate that it is unavailable.
- To appear suddenly or move like a disembodied soul; specifically (often sports); also (transitive, dated) followed by the dummy subject it: to move easily and quietly without anyone noticing; to slip.
- Of a disembodied soul: to appear (somewhere or to someone) in the form of an apparition; to haunt.
- Followed by for: synonym of ghostwrite (“to write a literary work or speech, or produce an artistic work, in the place of someone”); also, to carry out an artistic performance in the place of someone.
- To imbue (something) with a ghost-like effect or hue.
- To continuously cause (someone or something) trouble; specifically, to continuously be in the thoughts of (someone) in a disturbing manner; to perturb, to trouble.
- (slang) To kill (someone).
- (nautical) Of a sailing vessel: to sail seemingly with very little or no wind.
- (chiefly UK, law enforcement) To transfer (a prisoner) to another prison, usually without first informing the prisoner.
adj
noun
- a suggestion of some quality
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the feel of mechanical action
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- deftness in handling matters
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- a communicative interaction
- a distinguishing style
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
- (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- Form; standard of performance.
- (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- (uncountable, in set phrases) A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- The children's game of tag.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
verb
- color lightly
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- comprehend
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- consume
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- tamper with
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- affect emotionally
- have an effect upon
- perceive via the tactile sense
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- be relevant to
- be equal to in quality or ability
- (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To have sexual intercourse with
- (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- (transitive) To cause to be briefly in physical contact with something.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
- (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- (transitive) To begin to consume, or otherwise use.
- (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- (transitive, reflexive or rarely intransitive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
- (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
noun
- a suggestion of some quality
- a just detectable amount
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- an indication that something has been present
- (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- (meteorology) A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
- (semiotics) A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
- A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- (linear algebra) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- (programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
- (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
- (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
verb
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
- to go back over again
- discover traces of
- (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
adj
adj
noun
noun
- Rank; condition; quality.
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city state, with the central government acting as its visible instrument.
- (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- a state of depression or agitation
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
verb
verb
- give evidence of the quality of
- reflect deeply on a subject
- give evidence of a certain behavior
- to throw or bend back (from a surface)
- show an image of
- be bright by reflecting or casting light
- manifest or bring back
- (transitive) To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
- (transitive) To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.
- (transitive) To agree with; to closely follow.
- (transitive) To mirror, or show the image of something.
- (intransitive) To be mirrored.
- (intransitive) To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
- (intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
verb
- make better or improve in quality
- make wealthy or richer
- (physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. [from 20th c.]
- (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. [from 17th c.]
- (chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
- (transitive) To enhance.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
- (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly. [from 17th c.]
noun
- A level of quality or attainment.
- One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
- A measure for timber.
- A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
- A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- a hill with a cairn or tumulus at its summit
- A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
- (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
- (India) Grade level in primary education.
- The sheth of a plough.
- Ellipsis of standard poodle.
- A manual transmission vehicle.
- (sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
- (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
- A large drinking cup.
- (in place names, chiefly Northern England, Scotland) a cairn or tumulus
- A musical work of established popularity.
- (historical) A collar of mail protecting the neck.
- the value behind the money in a monetary system
- a board measure = 1980 board feet
- the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
- an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support)
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- any distinctive flag
adj
- Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- As normally supplied (not optional).
- Having recognized excellence or authority.
- (linguistics) Conforming to the standard variety.
- (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
- (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
- commonly used or supplied
- established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence
- conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind
- regularly and widely used or sold
- conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers
intj
noun
- A quantity or volume.
- The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
- (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
- a quantity of money
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
verb
adj
- First in excellence, quality, or value.
- Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- 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.
- First in time, order, or sequence.
- (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
adj
- Of high standard or quality.
- of high or superior quality or performance
- Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
- (astronomy, of a planet in the Solar System) Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.
- (anatomy, medicine) Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
- (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
- (taxonomy) More comprehensive.
- (botany) (of a calyx) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part.
- (superior to) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
- Greater or better than average.
- (botany) (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
- Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
- Greater in size or power.
- (botany) (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
- (typography) Printed in superscript.
- Located above or out; higher in position.
- Higher in rank, status, or quality.
- having a higher rank
- of or characteristic of high rank or importance
- (often followed by ‘to’) above being affected or influenced by
- written or printed above and to one side of another character
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) not subject to or influenced by
- having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit
noun
- The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
- (Scots law, historical) One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
- The senior person in a monastic community.
- (printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
- one of greater rank or station or quality
- a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
- the head of a religious community
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
noun
- the quality of being suitable
- the quality of being qualified
- good physical condition; being in shape or in condition
- The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
- (UK, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.
- (evolutionary theory) An organism's or species' degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring.
- The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
verb
- to measure up to in kind or quality
- determine the sum of
- be reasonable or logical or comprehensible
- add up in number or quantity
- (transitive, of a numerical amount) To take the sum of; to total.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.
- (intransitive) To accumulate; to amount to.
verb
- to measure up to in kind or quality
- proceed or get along
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- to be the product or result
- be found or available
- exist or occur in a certain point in a series
- extend or reach
- cover a certain distance
- come to one's mind; suggest itself
- happen as a result
- have a certain priority
- come under, be classified or included
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- be received
- come forth
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position
- come to pass; arrive, as in due course
- add up in number or quantity
- experience orgasm
- be a native of
- To move toward the listener.
- To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
- (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- (intransitive, often vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
- To move toward an unstated agent.
- To have been brought up by or employed by.
- (intransitive, of milk) To become butter by being churned.
- (transitive, informal) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of.
- (copulative, figuratively) To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- To move toward the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- (with an infinitive) To begin (to have an opinion or feeling).
- To move toward the speaker.
- (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
- (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- (with an infinitive) To do something by chance or unintentionally.
- (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To have a certain social background.
- (intransitive) To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.
- To be or have been a resident or native.
- (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
- (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause.
- (intransitive) To arrive.
noun
prep
noun
adj
noun
- Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
- The cost required to gain possession of something.
- The cost of an action or deed.
- cost of bribing someone
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- the amount of money needed to purchase something
- the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal
- the high value or worth of something
verb
noun
adj
- (physics) Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy).
- (immunology) Limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- (physics) Similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- (physics) A measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air).
- (sometimes in combination) Special, distinctive or unique.
- (bioscience, taxonomy) Pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- Explicit or definite.
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- Being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
- stated explicitly or in detail
- being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides
- relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique
noun
- the essential quality of something
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the feel of a surface or a fabric
- the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
- the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality
- (computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
- The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
- (art) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
adj
verb
noun
- the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
- (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population
- a superiority in numbers or amount
- The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
- (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.
noun
- The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
- (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
- (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
- (often plural) That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
- (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- Precise meaning; import.
- a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed
- the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- relative darkness or lightness of a color
- (music) the relative duration of a musical note
- the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
- an ideal accepted by some individual or group
verb
- To hold dear; to cherish.
- To determine or estimate the value of; to judge the worth of.
- To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
- regard highly; think much of
- fix or determine the value of; assign a value to
- estimate the value of
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- hold dear
adj
- of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior
- profit oriented
- of or relating to commercialism
- connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises
- (aviation) Designating such an airplane flight.
- (aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
- Of or pertaining to commerce.
noun
noun
- a quality that differentiates between similar things
- a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves
- the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx
- (multivariable calculus) The Jacobian matrix of a function of several variables.
- (calculus, of a univariate differentiable function f(x)) A function giving the change in the linear approximation of f at a point x over a small interval Δx or operatorname d!x, the function being called the differential of f and denoted operatorname d!f(x,Δx), operatorname d!f(x), or simply operatorname d!f.
- Any of several generalizations of this concept to functions of several variables or to higher orders: the partial differential, total differential, Gateaux differential, etc.
- One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.
- The differential gear in an automobile, etc.
- A form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all.
- (differential geometry, of a smooth map ϕ between smooth manifolds) The pushforward or total derivative of ϕ: a linear map from the tangent space at a point x in ϕ's domain to the tangent space at ϕ(x) which is, in a technical sense, the best linear approximation of ϕ at x; denoted operatorname d!ϕₓ.
- (mathematics) Any of several generalizations of the concept(s) above: e.g. the Kähler differential in the setting of schemes, the quadratic differential in the theory of Riemann surfaces, etc.
- (calculus) A quantity representing an infinitesimal change in a variable, now only used as a heuristic aid except in nonstandard analysis but considered rigorous until the 20th century; a fluxion in Newtonian calculus, now usually written in Leibniz's notation as operatorname d!x.
- A qualitative or quantitative difference between similar or comparable things.
adj
noun
- A specified aspect or quality.
- (in a university) One of the divisions of instructions
- A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
- A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
- A part, portion, or subdivision.
- (often in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government
- (historical) A military subdivision of a country
- the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
- a specialized sphere of knowledge
- a specialized division of a large organization
noun
- A reduction in quality or quantity.
- A change of direction or a movement downwards.
- (automotive, cycling) A shift of a transmission into a lower gear, as dictated by heavier load on the engine, as for example when climbing a hill or strongly accelerating.
- A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle
- a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one
verb
- To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)
- (automotive, cycling) To shift (a car or bicycle) into a lower gear.
- To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- (automotive, cycling) To shift a transmission into a lower gear.
- To function at a lower rate; to slacken.
noun
- Quantity.
- (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.
- (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
- (countable, informal) An outfit, particularly a stylish one.
- (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
- (countable, informal) A person.
- (singular only, formal) A group of people.
- (countable, informal) A telephone number.
- (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
- (countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
- (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
- (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
- A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
- Something that numbs.
- A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
- An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number.
- a clothing measurement
- a select company of people
- a symbol used to represent a number
- a concept of quantity involving zero and units
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- an item of clothing
- the number is used in calling a particular telephone
- one of a series published periodically
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
- a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc.
- a numbered item in a series
- the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural)
adj
verb
- (transitive, usually with among) To classify or include (in a group of things)
- (transitive, with off) To enumerate or list, especially while assigning numbers to.
- (transitive, passive voice) To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.
- (intransitive, usually with among) To be classified or included (in a certain group or category of things).
- (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
- (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
- (transitive, with off) To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.
- place a limit on the number of
- put into a group
- give numbers to
- determine the number or amount of
- add up in number or quantity
- enumerate
noun
- Quantity.
- The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
- (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
- A bound book.
- (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
- Strength of sound: how loud it is.
- (cinematography) A sound stage film set that has walls of video monitors, substituting for an actual background, set structures, providing a changeable video matte painting. A set with a form of projected background, similar to legacy traditional rear projection and front projection sets.
- (bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
- (climbing, bouldering) A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
- A rounded mass or convolution.
- (cinematography) A green/blue-screen chromakey visual effects (“VFX”) sound stage surrounded by a multitude of filming cameras, to allow for virtual camera changes in post production, by filming the whole 3-D volume of a chromakey film set.
- (graph theory) The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
- (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
- A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
- A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
- the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
- a relative amount
- the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
- physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
- a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
verb
noun
- a suggestion of some quality
- a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
- the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- (theater) An understudy.
- (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
- (attributive, in names of species) White or pale.
- (cleaning) A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
- (quantum mechanics) An unphysical state in a gauge theory.
- Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of such a person.
- (attributive) Of a cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
- (espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.
- A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
- (Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
- (attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.
- A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefit.
- (writing) Ellipsis of ghostwriter.
- (uncountable, often capitalized) A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.
- (attributive) Abandoned.
- (computing, linguistics, attributive) A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.
- (by extension) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
- A dead person whose identity is stolen by another (see ghosting).
- A false image, for example in a photographic print or negative, or on a television screen or radar display, or in a telescope, caused by poor or double reception or reflection (from a lens or screen).
- (countable) Ellipsis of ghost pepper.
- (video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.
- (attributive) Remnant; remains.
- (attributive) Substitute.
- (computing) A copy of a file or record.
verb
- haunt like a ghost; pursue
- move like a ghost
- write for someone else
- (chiefly social media, slang) To stop communicating with (someone) on social media, though text messages, etc., without explanation, especially as a way of ending a relationship; hence, to end a relationship with (someone) by stopping all communication without explanation.
- Synonym of ghostwrite (“to write (a literary work or speech), or produce (an artistic work)), in the place of someone”); also, to carry out (an artistic performance) in the place of someone.
- (Internet) To forcibly disconnect (an IRC user) who is using one's reserved nickname.
- (graphical user interface) To gray out (a visual element) to indicate that it is unavailable.
- To appear suddenly or move like a disembodied soul; specifically (often sports); also (transitive, dated) followed by the dummy subject it: to move easily and quietly without anyone noticing; to slip.
- Of a disembodied soul: to appear (somewhere or to someone) in the form of an apparition; to haunt.
- Followed by for: synonym of ghostwrite (“to write a literary work or speech, or produce an artistic work, in the place of someone”); also, to carry out an artistic performance in the place of someone.
- To imbue (something) with a ghost-like effect or hue.
- To continuously cause (someone or something) trouble; specifically, to continuously be in the thoughts of (someone) in a disturbing manner; to perturb, to trouble.
- (slang) To kill (someone).
- (nautical) Of a sailing vessel: to sail seemingly with very little or no wind.
- (chiefly UK, law enforcement) To transfer (a prisoner) to another prison, usually without first informing the prisoner.
adj
noun
- a suggestion of some quality
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the feel of mechanical action
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- deftness in handling matters
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- a communicative interaction
- a distinguishing style
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
- (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- Form; standard of performance.
- (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- (uncountable, in set phrases) A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- The children's game of tag.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
verb
- color lightly
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- comprehend
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- consume
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- tamper with
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- affect emotionally
- have an effect upon
- perceive via the tactile sense
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- be relevant to
- be equal to in quality or ability
- (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To have sexual intercourse with
- (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- (transitive) To cause to be briefly in physical contact with something.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
- (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- (transitive) To begin to consume, or otherwise use.
- (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- (transitive, reflexive or rarely intransitive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
- (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
noun
- a suggestion of some quality
- a just detectable amount
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- an indication that something has been present
- (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- (meteorology) A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
- (semiotics) A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
- A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- (linear algebra) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- (programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
- (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
- (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
verb
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
- to go back over again
- discover traces of
- (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
adj
noun
- Rank; condition; quality.
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city state, with the central government acting as its visible instrument.
- (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- a state of depression or agitation
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
verb
noun
- A level of quality or attainment.
- One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
- A measure for timber.
- A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
- A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- a hill with a cairn or tumulus at its summit
- A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
- (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
- (India) Grade level in primary education.
- The sheth of a plough.
- Ellipsis of standard poodle.
- A manual transmission vehicle.
- (sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
- (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
- A large drinking cup.
- (in place names, chiefly Northern England, Scotland) a cairn or tumulus
- A musical work of established popularity.
- (historical) A collar of mail protecting the neck.
- the value behind the money in a monetary system
- a board measure = 1980 board feet
- the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
- an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support)
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- any distinctive flag
adj
- Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- As normally supplied (not optional).
- Having recognized excellence or authority.
- (linguistics) Conforming to the standard variety.
- (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
- (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
- commonly used or supplied
- established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence
- conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind
- regularly and widely used or sold
- conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers
intj
noun
- A quantity or volume.
- The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
- (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
- a quantity of money
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
verb
noun
- the quality of being suitable
- the quality of being qualified
- good physical condition; being in shape or in condition
- The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
- (UK, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.
- (evolutionary theory) An organism's or species' degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring.
- The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
noun
adj
noun
- Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
- The cost required to gain possession of something.
- The cost of an action or deed.
- cost of bribing someone
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- the amount of money needed to purchase something
- the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal
- the high value or worth of something
verb
noun
adj
- (physics) Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy).
- (immunology) Limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- (physics) Similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- (physics) A measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air).
- (sometimes in combination) Special, distinctive or unique.
- (bioscience, taxonomy) Pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- Explicit or definite.
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- Being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
- stated explicitly or in detail
- being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides
- relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique
noun
- the essential quality of something
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the feel of a surface or a fabric
- the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
- the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality
- (computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
- The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
- (art) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
adj
verb
noun
- the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
- (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population
- a superiority in numbers or amount
- The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
- (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.
noun
- The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
- (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
- (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
- (often plural) That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
- (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- Precise meaning; import.
- a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed
- the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- relative darkness or lightness of a color
- (music) the relative duration of a musical note
- the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
- an ideal accepted by some individual or group
verb
- To hold dear; to cherish.
- To determine or estimate the value of; to judge the worth of.
- To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
- regard highly; think much of
- fix or determine the value of; assign a value to
- estimate the value of
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- hold dear
noun
- a quality that differentiates between similar things
- a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves
- the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx
- (multivariable calculus) The Jacobian matrix of a function of several variables.
- (calculus, of a univariate differentiable function f(x)) A function giving the change in the linear approximation of f at a point x over a small interval Δx or operatorname d!x, the function being called the differential of f and denoted operatorname d!f(x,Δx), operatorname d!f(x), or simply operatorname d!f.
- Any of several generalizations of this concept to functions of several variables or to higher orders: the partial differential, total differential, Gateaux differential, etc.
- One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.
- The differential gear in an automobile, etc.
- A form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all.
- (differential geometry, of a smooth map ϕ between smooth manifolds) The pushforward or total derivative of ϕ: a linear map from the tangent space at a point x in ϕ's domain to the tangent space at ϕ(x) which is, in a technical sense, the best linear approximation of ϕ at x; denoted operatorname d!ϕₓ.
- (mathematics) Any of several generalizations of the concept(s) above: e.g. the Kähler differential in the setting of schemes, the quadratic differential in the theory of Riemann surfaces, etc.
- (calculus) A quantity representing an infinitesimal change in a variable, now only used as a heuristic aid except in nonstandard analysis but considered rigorous until the 20th century; a fluxion in Newtonian calculus, now usually written in Leibniz's notation as operatorname d!x.
- A qualitative or quantitative difference between similar or comparable things.
adj
verb
adj
det
noun
verb
- limit in quality or quantity
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- subsist on a meager allowance
- (intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
- To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
- (transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
noun
verb
- change in quality
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
noun
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
verb
- determine the essential quality of
- give a definition for the meaning of a word
- determine the nature of
- show the form or outline of
- decide upon or fix definitely
- To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
- To express the essential nature of something.
- To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
- To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
- To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
- (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.
noun
verb
adj
verb
- determine the essential quality of
- define clearly
- be specific about
- select something or someone for a specific purpose
- specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
- decide upon or fix definitely
- design or destine
- (transitive) To bring about a specific result.
- (transitive) To include in a specification.
- (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
verb
- give evidence of the quality of
- reflect deeply on a subject
- give evidence of a certain behavior
- to throw or bend back (from a surface)
- show an image of
- be bright by reflecting or casting light
- manifest or bring back
- (transitive) To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
- (transitive) To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.
- (transitive) To agree with; to closely follow.
- (transitive) To mirror, or show the image of something.
- (intransitive) To be mirrored.
- (intransitive) To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
- (intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
verb
- make better or improve in quality
- make wealthy or richer
- (physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. [from 20th c.]
- (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. [from 17th c.]
- (chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
- (transitive) To enhance.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
- (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly. [from 17th c.]
noun
- A quantity or volume.
- The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
- (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
- a quantity of money
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
verb
verb
- to measure up to in kind or quality
- determine the sum of
- be reasonable or logical or comprehensible
- add up in number or quantity
- (transitive, of a numerical amount) To take the sum of; to total.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.
- (intransitive) To accumulate; to amount to.
verb
- to measure up to in kind or quality
- proceed or get along
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- to be the product or result
- be found or available
- exist or occur in a certain point in a series
- extend or reach
- cover a certain distance
- come to one's mind; suggest itself
- happen as a result
- have a certain priority
- come under, be classified or included
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- be received
- come forth
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position
- come to pass; arrive, as in due course
- add up in number or quantity
- experience orgasm
- be a native of
- To move toward the listener.
- To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
- (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- (intransitive, often vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
- To move toward an unstated agent.
- To have been brought up by or employed by.
- (intransitive, of milk) To become butter by being churned.
- (transitive, informal) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of.
- (copulative, figuratively) To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- To move toward the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- (with an infinitive) To begin (to have an opinion or feeling).
- To move toward the speaker.
- (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
- (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- (with an infinitive) To do something by chance or unintentionally.
- (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To have a certain social background.
- (intransitive) To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.
- To be or have been a resident or native.
- (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
- (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause.
- (intransitive) To arrive.
noun
prep
adj
- characterized by good substantial quality
- financially dependable
- of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous
- uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks
- providing abundant nourishment
- acting together as a single undiversified whole
- meriting respect or esteem
- of one substance or character throughout
- not soft or yielding to pressure
- of the same color throughout
- of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial
- having length, breadth and thickness
- impenetrable for the eye
- of good quality and condition; solidly built
- entirely of one substance with no holes inside
- (of time) Entire, complete.
- (of drawn lines) Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
- Hearty; filling.
- (of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
- Large in size, quantity, or value.
- (slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
- Of a single color throughout.
- Sound; not weak.
- (US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured as a single solid, as the volumes of individual pieces added together without any gaps.
- Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
- (typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
- Strong or unyielding.
- United.
- (of rain) Continuous and heavy.
- Financially well off; wealthy.
- Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
noun
- matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure
- the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape
- a three-dimensional object, structurally rigid, usually resistant to changes of shape or volume
- (geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
- (in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.
- (informal) A favor.
- An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
- (chemistry) A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
adv
adj
- Varying in quality.
- Not uniform.
- Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- Not level or smooth.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd.
- not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
- not divisible by two
- (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
- lacking consistency
- variable and recurring at irregular intervals
verb
adj
noun
- Something offered at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.
- A bonus paid in addition to normal payments.
- (insurance) The amount to be paid for an insurance policy.
- An unusually high value.
- A prize or award.
- (finance) The amount by which a security's value exceeds its face value.
- the amount that something in scarce supply is valued above its nominal value
- payment for insurance
- a fee charged for exchanging currencies
- payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military
- a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc.
adj
noun
adj
- First in excellence, quality, or value.
- Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- 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.
- First in time, order, or sequence.
- (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
adj
- Of high standard or quality.
- of high or superior quality or performance
- Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
- (astronomy, of a planet in the Solar System) Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.
- (anatomy, medicine) Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
- (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
- (taxonomy) More comprehensive.
- (botany) (of a calyx) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part.
- (superior to) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
- Greater or better than average.
- (botany) (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
- Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
- Greater in size or power.
- (botany) (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
- (typography) Printed in superscript.
- Located above or out; higher in position.
- Higher in rank, status, or quality.
- having a higher rank
- of or characteristic of high rank or importance
- (often followed by ‘to’) above being affected or influenced by
- written or printed above and to one side of another character
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) not subject to or influenced by
- having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit
noun
- The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
- (Scots law, historical) One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
- The senior person in a monastic community.
- (printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
- one of greater rank or station or quality
- a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
- the head of a religious community
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
noun
- A level of quality or attainment.
- One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
- A measure for timber.
- A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
- A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- a hill with a cairn or tumulus at its summit
- A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
- (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
- (India) Grade level in primary education.
- The sheth of a plough.
- Ellipsis of standard poodle.
- A manual transmission vehicle.
- (sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
- (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
- A large drinking cup.
- (in place names, chiefly Northern England, Scotland) a cairn or tumulus
- A musical work of established popularity.
- (historical) A collar of mail protecting the neck.
- the value behind the money in a monetary system
- a board measure = 1980 board feet
- the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
- an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support)
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- any distinctive flag
adj
- Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- As normally supplied (not optional).
- Having recognized excellence or authority.
- (linguistics) Conforming to the standard variety.
- (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
- (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
- commonly used or supplied
- established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence
- conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind
- regularly and widely used or sold
- conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers
intj
adj
- of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior
- profit oriented
- of or relating to commercialism
- connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises
- (aviation) Designating such an airplane flight.
- (aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
- Of or pertaining to commerce.