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adj
- Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
- acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
- (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
- (physics) Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
- of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other
noun
prep
- In addition to; as an accessory to.
- Affected by (a certain emotion or condition).
- Considering; taking into account.
- Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
- Using as an instrument; by means of.
- In regard to.
- Keeping up with; understanding; following along.
- Against.
- Prompted by (a certain emotion).
- Having, owning.
- In support of.
- In the employment of.
- In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
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noun
- Something which corresponds with something else; counterpart.
- Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
- A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.
- a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
- someone who communicates by means of letters
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- (ambitransitive) To match (objects, especially clothes).
- (transitive) To place in the same order or rank.
- (ambitransitive) To synchronize (activities).
- be co-ordinated
- bring into common action, movement, or condition
- bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation
- bring order and organization to
noun
- something additional of the same kind
- a copy that corresponds to an original exactly
- One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
- (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate bridge.
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate Scrabble.
- A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.
- (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.
adj
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- something additional of the same kind
- a minor actor in crowd scenes
- an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis)
- (cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball.
- Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill.
- (slang) The state or trait of being over the top, of behaving in an overly dramatic manner.
- (Singapore, military, countable) A day of extra duties (often, over the weekends) in camp, as a form of punishment. Used in the phrase “to sign extra”, meaning one has been assigned extras as punishment.
- Something of an extra quality or grade.
- An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle, for example to report an important late-breaking event.
- (acting) A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
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- An accessory or accompaniment.
- (countable) Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.
- (uncountable) The act or process of someone who trims.
- (countable) An instance of that act or process.
- (historical) An ornamental accessory to a dress or other piece of clothing.
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- the act of adding decoration
- a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment
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verb
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- Something that supports another thing.
- A person who supports, promotes, advocates or champions a cause, movement, or political party; an adherent.
- Something that supports a structure such as a building or a sculpture.
- (heraldry) An animal or figure that supports a shield in a coat of arms.
- A garter worn around the leg to support a sock or stocking.
- A person who provides moral or physical support to another; an attendant participating in a ceremony or procession.
- Clipping of athletic supporter.
- (sports) Someone who is a fan of a certain sports team or sportsperson.
- a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)
- a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise
- a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
- someone who supports or champions something
noun
adj
- Able to get along well.
- Capable of easy interaction.
- Consistent; congruous.
- capable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
- capable of forming a homogeneous mixture that neither separates nor is altered by chemical interaction
- able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination
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adj
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- the other one of a complementary pair
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An antonym.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
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- Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
- An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
- (basketball) One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.
- (video games) An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
- anything that tends to arouse
- an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output
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noun
- Something that corrects or counteracts.
- The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
- (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
- act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
verb
noun
- Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.
- (law) A duplicate of a legal document.
- One who or that which resembles another.
- One who or that which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
- (paleontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.
- a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another
- a duplicate copy
verb
noun
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- (computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- (weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
- (computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- (rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- (mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- (corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- A keepsake.
- (philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- (medicine) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- (computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- (printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- (mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A tally.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
- something of sentimental value
- a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines
- something serving as a sign of something else
adj
- (of people) Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
verb
noun
- Something that is useful.
- (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
- The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
- (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A coupé utility, or ute; an automobile with an open tray or bed behind the passenger cabin.
- (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system, or application software.
- (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- (business, finance, by extension) A natural or legal monopoly distributer of such a utility; or, the securities of such a provider.
- (computing) A software program other than a game; one that is useful or creative rather than merely entertaining.
- (business) A commodity or service provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage.
- a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
- (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
- the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
- the quality of being of practical use
- a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal
adj
- Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
- Functional rather than attractive.
- (Of a building or its components) containing or intended for any of a building’s often-utility-related commodity transport, such as pipes or wires, or converting equipment, such as furnaces, water tanks or heaters, circuit breakers, central air conditioning units, laundry facilities, etc.
- capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
- used of beef; usable but inferior
noun
- Something that is reflective (indicative) of something else.
- A safety reflector.
- (cellular automata) A pattern which can change the direction and/or offset of an oncoming spaceship without being destroyed.
- A reflecting telescope.
- Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface.
- A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle or bicycle that reflects the headlights of other vehicles.
- One who reflects on something; one who thinks or considers at length.
- optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece
- device that reflects radiation
noun
- A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position; an accompaniment.
- (historical) A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
- a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family
- any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life
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noun
- Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
- (real estate) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
- (neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).
- The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
- The act or principle of compensating.
- A recompense or reward for service.
- (finance) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
- the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
- something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
noun
- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
- (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
- (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
- someone who takes the place of another person
adj
- (US) Other; alternative.
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
- (heraldry) Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
- (mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
- (botany, of leaves) Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other
- every second one of a series
- of leaves and branches etc.; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired
- serving or used in place of another
verb
- (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
- (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
- (intransitive) To vary by turns.
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- be an understudy or alternate for a role
- do something in turns
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
noun
- A combination of different things.
- (dentistry) An alloy of mercury used to fill tooth cavities.
- (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
- One of the ingredients in an alloy.
- a combination or blend of diverse things
- an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
noun
- That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
- (music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
- an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
noun
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- (grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
- (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin.
- (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- (palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
- (genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
- (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
- (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
- (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
- number needed to make up a whole force
- either of two parts that mutually complete each other
- a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
- a complete number or quantity
- one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
verb
- To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
- To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
- make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to
noun
- Something useful or valuable.
- (Marxism) Anything which has both a use value and an exchange value.
- (business) Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
- (marketing) Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin and (usually) fungibility, as distinguished from branded products not wholly fungible.
- (economics) Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.
- a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes
noun
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
- (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a natural consequence of development
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- a compensating equivalent
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
adj
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verb
- (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To place out of line.
- (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- make up for
- create an offset in
- cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
- compensate for or counterbalance
- produce by offset printing
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- counterattack
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
- (Internet) A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
- (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)
- a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
- table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted
- a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens
- a person who counts things
- a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
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- That which appertains; an appendage to something else; an addition.
- The state or quality of being an appurtenance.
- (law) A subordinate interest in land which benefits a principal estate, which cannot be detached from or held separately to that estate; an appurtenant interest.
- (grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.
- (in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
- equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
- a supplementary component that improves capability
verb
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- (sports) To play a match.
- To get acquainted with someone.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To come together in conflict.
- (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- collect in one place
- undergo or suffer
- experience as a reaction
- meet by design; be present at the arrival of
- come together
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- be adjacent or come together
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- get together socially or for a specific purpose
- get to know; get acquainted with
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
noun
- (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- (informal) A meeting.
- (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
- a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
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noun
- That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
- An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
- (especially US) An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
- (law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
- In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
- the act of amending or correcting
- a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.)
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adj
- Existing tangentially, being a byproduct, a tangent, or a likely consequence.
- (physics, of radiation) Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
- Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related.
- Occurring by chance.
- not of prime or central importance
- occurring with or following as a consequence
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
verb
- (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
- (transitive, in the phrase "substitute X for Y") To use X in place of Y.
- (transitive, formerly proscribed, often in the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", sometimes "substitute X for Y") To use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
- (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
- (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
- be a substitute
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- act as a substitute
noun
- A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
- (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.
- (economics) Abbreviation of substitute good.
- A substitute teacher.
- (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually do so.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
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noun
- (sometimes attributive) Something which can be appended to something else.
- (video games) Synonym of expansion pack.
- (poker) Additional chips that can be purchased at specific times in tournament play.
- (computer hardware, software) A software extension or hardware peripheral that provides additional functions or customization for a core application or system.
- a supplementary component that improves capability
- a software module that extends or enhances the capabilities of an existing application
- a component that is added to something to improve it
noun
- Something that actuates something else.
- (electricity) A relay that controls the flow of electricity.
- A usually electric device that causes a mechanical device (i.e., a mechanism) to be switched on or off. For example; an electric motor that opens and closes a valve.
- (computer hardware) The mechanism that moves the head assembly on a disk drive.
- a mechanism that puts something into automatic action
noun
- Something that distracts.
- Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
- The process of being distracted.
- Mental disarray; a deranged state of mind; insanity.
- the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something
- mental turmoil
- an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations
- an obstacle to attention
verb
- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- (intransitive, especially LGBTQ slang) To take on the receptive role during intercourse.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.
- strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
- come to understand
- provide with a bottom or a seat
adj
noun
- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A sexual submissive.
- (heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The bed of a body of water.
- An abyss.
- (particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.
- (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- (uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- The lowest part of anything.
- (euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
- The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
- (usually in the plural) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- (clothing, often plural) A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The lowest or last position in a rank.
- (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- (music) The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
- The remotest or innermost part of something.
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- (countable, slang, especially LGBTQ slang) A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
- (agriculture) The working portion of a moldboard-style plow.
- the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
- low-lying alluvial land near a river
- a cargo ship
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the lowest part of anything
- the lower side of anything
noun
- Something which adds or increases.
- A common European adder (Vipera berus).
- A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum).
- Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
- (chiefly British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
- A northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
- Death adders (Acanthophis spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
- An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
- A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
- A puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
- A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
- a machine that adds numbers
- a person who adds numbers
- small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia
adj
- Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
- (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.
- (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
- (biology, sociology) Having or pertaining to a gender identity represented by the gender binary; either male or female.
- (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns such states.
- (comparable) Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.
- (computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).
- Being in one of two mutually exclusive states.
- of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base
- consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms)
noun
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary star.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary asteroid.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary planet.
- A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.
- (computing) Synonym of binary file.
- (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
- (finance) Synonym of binary option.
- a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
- a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system
verb
noun
- (grammar) An adjunct that is nonessential, especially a supplementary relative clause.
- (geometry) An angle that, when added to a given angle, makes 180°; a supplementary angle.
- Something added; especially, such an addition added to make up for a deficiency.
- A surcharge, additional cost, especially for food in a restaurant.
- An extension to a document or publication that adds information, corrects errors, or brings up to date.
- (nutrition, bodybuilding) A vitamin, herbal extract, or chemical compound ingested to meet dietary deficiencies or enhance muscular development; the dosage form that conveys or embodies it (e.g., tablet, capsule, pill, powder, beverage).
- (journalism, scientific literature) An additional section of a newspaper devoted to a specific subject; an additional section of a journal issue, or an additional issue, for a similar purpose.
- a supplementary component that improves capability
- textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end
- a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency)
noun
- Something which corresponds with something else; counterpart.
- Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
- A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.
- a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
- someone who communicates by means of letters
adj
noun
adj
verb
- (ambitransitive) To match (objects, especially clothes).
- (transitive) To place in the same order or rank.
- (ambitransitive) To synchronize (activities).
- be co-ordinated
- bring into common action, movement, or condition
- bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation
- bring order and organization to
noun
- something additional of the same kind
- a copy that corresponds to an original exactly
- One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
- (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate bridge.
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate Scrabble.
- A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.
- (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.
adj
verb
noun
- something additional of the same kind
- a minor actor in crowd scenes
- an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis)
- (cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball.
- Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill.
- (slang) The state or trait of being over the top, of behaving in an overly dramatic manner.
- (Singapore, military, countable) A day of extra duties (often, over the weekends) in camp, as a form of punishment. Used in the phrase “to sign extra”, meaning one has been assigned extras as punishment.
- Something of an extra quality or grade.
- An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle, for example to report an important late-breaking event.
- (acting) A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
adj
adv
noun
- An accessory or accompaniment.
- (countable) Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.
- (uncountable) The act or process of someone who trims.
- (countable) An instance of that act or process.
- (historical) An ornamental accessory to a dress or other piece of clothing.
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- the act of adding decoration
- a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment
verb
noun
- Something that supports another thing.
- A person who supports, promotes, advocates or champions a cause, movement, or political party; an adherent.
- Something that supports a structure such as a building or a sculpture.
- (heraldry) An animal or figure that supports a shield in a coat of arms.
- A garter worn around the leg to support a sock or stocking.
- A person who provides moral or physical support to another; an attendant participating in a ceremony or procession.
- Clipping of athletic supporter.
- (sports) Someone who is a fan of a certain sports team or sportsperson.
- a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)
- a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise
- a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
- someone who supports or champions something
noun
adj
- Able to get along well.
- Capable of easy interaction.
- Consistent; congruous.
- capable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
- capable of forming a homogeneous mixture that neither separates nor is altered by chemical interaction
- able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination
noun
- Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
- An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
- (basketball) One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.
- (video games) An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
- anything that tends to arouse
- an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output
verb
noun
- Something that corrects or counteracts.
- The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
- (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
- act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
verb
noun
- Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.
- (law) A duplicate of a legal document.
- One who or that which resembles another.
- One who or that which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
- (paleontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.
- a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another
- a duplicate copy
verb
noun
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- (computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- (weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
- (computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- (rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- (mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- (corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- A keepsake.
- (philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- (medicine) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- (computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- (printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- (mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A tally.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
- something of sentimental value
- a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines
- something serving as a sign of something else
adj
- (of people) Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
verb
noun
- Something that is useful.
- (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
- The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
- (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A coupé utility, or ute; an automobile with an open tray or bed behind the passenger cabin.
- (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system, or application software.
- (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- (business, finance, by extension) A natural or legal monopoly distributer of such a utility; or, the securities of such a provider.
- (computing) A software program other than a game; one that is useful or creative rather than merely entertaining.
- (business) A commodity or service provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage.
- a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
- (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
- the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
- the quality of being of practical use
- a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal
adj
- Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
- Functional rather than attractive.
- (Of a building or its components) containing or intended for any of a building’s often-utility-related commodity transport, such as pipes or wires, or converting equipment, such as furnaces, water tanks or heaters, circuit breakers, central air conditioning units, laundry facilities, etc.
- capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
- used of beef; usable but inferior
noun
- Something that is reflective (indicative) of something else.
- A safety reflector.
- (cellular automata) A pattern which can change the direction and/or offset of an oncoming spaceship without being destroyed.
- A reflecting telescope.
- Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface.
- A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle or bicycle that reflects the headlights of other vehicles.
- One who reflects on something; one who thinks or considers at length.
- optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece
- device that reflects radiation
noun
- A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position; an accompaniment.
- (historical) A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
- a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family
- any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life
verb
noun
- Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
- (real estate) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
- (neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).
- The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
- The act or principle of compensating.
- A recompense or reward for service.
- (finance) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
- the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
- something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
noun
- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
- (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
- (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
- someone who takes the place of another person
adj
- (US) Other; alternative.
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
- (heraldry) Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
- (mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
- (botany, of leaves) Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other
- every second one of a series
- of leaves and branches etc.; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired
- serving or used in place of another
verb
- (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
- (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
- (intransitive) To vary by turns.
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- be an understudy or alternate for a role
- do something in turns
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
noun
- A combination of different things.
- (dentistry) An alloy of mercury used to fill tooth cavities.
- (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
- One of the ingredients in an alloy.
- a combination or blend of diverse things
- an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
noun
- That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
- (music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
- an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
noun
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- (grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
- (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin.
- (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- (palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
- (genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
- (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
- (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
- (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
- number needed to make up a whole force
- either of two parts that mutually complete each other
- a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
- a complete number or quantity
- one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
verb
- To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
- To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
- make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to
noun
- Something useful or valuable.
- (Marxism) Anything which has both a use value and an exchange value.
- (business) Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
- (marketing) Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin and (usually) fungibility, as distinguished from branded products not wholly fungible.
- (economics) Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.
- a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes
noun
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
- (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a natural consequence of development
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- a compensating equivalent
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
adj
adv
verb
- (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To place out of line.
- (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- make up for
- create an offset in
- cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
- compensate for or counterbalance
- produce by offset printing
prep
adj
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- the other one of a complementary pair
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An antonym.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
adv
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- counterattack
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
- (Internet) A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
- (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)
- a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
- table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted
- a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens
- a person who counts things
- a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
adj
adv
verb
noun
- That which appertains; an appendage to something else; an addition.
- The state or quality of being an appurtenance.
- (law) A subordinate interest in land which benefits a principal estate, which cannot be detached from or held separately to that estate; an appurtenant interest.
- (grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.
- (in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
- equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
- a supplementary component that improves capability
noun
- That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
- An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
- (especially US) An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
- (law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
- In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
- the act of amending or correcting
- a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.)
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- Existing tangentially, being a byproduct, a tangent, or a likely consequence.
- (physics, of radiation) Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
- Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related.
- Occurring by chance.
- not of prime or central importance
- occurring with or following as a consequence
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
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- (sometimes attributive) Something which can be appended to something else.
- (video games) Synonym of expansion pack.
- (poker) Additional chips that can be purchased at specific times in tournament play.
- (computer hardware, software) A software extension or hardware peripheral that provides additional functions or customization for a core application or system.
- a supplementary component that improves capability
- a software module that extends or enhances the capabilities of an existing application
- a component that is added to something to improve it
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- Something that actuates something else.
- (electricity) A relay that controls the flow of electricity.
- A usually electric device that causes a mechanical device (i.e., a mechanism) to be switched on or off. For example; an electric motor that opens and closes a valve.
- (computer hardware) The mechanism that moves the head assembly on a disk drive.
- a mechanism that puts something into automatic action
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- Something that distracts.
- Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
- The process of being distracted.
- Mental disarray; a deranged state of mind; insanity.
- the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something
- mental turmoil
- an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations
- an obstacle to attention
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- Something which adds or increases.
- A common European adder (Vipera berus).
- A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum).
- Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
- (chiefly British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
- A northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
- Death adders (Acanthophis spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
- An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
- A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
- A puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
- A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
- a machine that adds numbers
- a person who adds numbers
- small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia
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- (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
- (transitive, in the phrase "substitute X for Y") To use X in place of Y.
- (transitive, formerly proscribed, often in the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", sometimes "substitute X for Y") To use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
- (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
- (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
- be a substitute
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- act as a substitute
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- A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
- (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.
- (economics) Abbreviation of substitute good.
- A substitute teacher.
- (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually do so.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
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- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- (sports) To play a match.
- To get acquainted with someone.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To come together in conflict.
- (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- collect in one place
- undergo or suffer
- experience as a reaction
- meet by design; be present at the arrival of
- come together
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- be adjacent or come together
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- get together socially or for a specific purpose
- get to know; get acquainted with
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
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- (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- (informal) A meeting.
- (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
- a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
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- (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
- (transitive, in the phrase "substitute X for Y") To use X in place of Y.
- (transitive, formerly proscribed, often in the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", sometimes "substitute X for Y") To use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
- (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
- (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
- be a substitute
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- act as a substitute
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- A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
- (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.
- (economics) Abbreviation of substitute good.
- A substitute teacher.
- (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually do so.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
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- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- (intransitive, especially LGBTQ slang) To take on the receptive role during intercourse.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.
- strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
- come to understand
- provide with a bottom or a seat
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- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A sexual submissive.
- (heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The bed of a body of water.
- An abyss.
- (particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.
- (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- (uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- The lowest part of anything.
- (euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
- The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
- (usually in the plural) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- (clothing, often plural) A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The lowest or last position in a rank.
- (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- (music) The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
- The remotest or innermost part of something.
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- (countable, slang, especially LGBTQ slang) A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
- (agriculture) The working portion of a moldboard-style plow.
- the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
- low-lying alluvial land near a river
- a cargo ship
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the lowest part of anything
- the lower side of anything
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- (grammar) An adjunct that is nonessential, especially a supplementary relative clause.
- (geometry) An angle that, when added to a given angle, makes 180°; a supplementary angle.
- Something added; especially, such an addition added to make up for a deficiency.
- A surcharge, additional cost, especially for food in a restaurant.
- An extension to a document or publication that adds information, corrects errors, or brings up to date.
- (nutrition, bodybuilding) A vitamin, herbal extract, or chemical compound ingested to meet dietary deficiencies or enhance muscular development; the dosage form that conveys or embodies it (e.g., tablet, capsule, pill, powder, beverage).
- (journalism, scientific literature) An additional section of a newspaper devoted to a specific subject; an additional section of a journal issue, or an additional issue, for a similar purpose.
- a supplementary component that improves capability
- textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end
- a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency)
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- Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
- acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
- (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
- (physics) Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
- of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other
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- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- the other one of a complementary pair
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
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- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An antonym.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
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- Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
- (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.
- (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
- (biology, sociology) Having or pertaining to a gender identity represented by the gender binary; either male or female.
- (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns such states.
- (comparable) Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.
- (computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).
- Being in one of two mutually exclusive states.
- of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base
- consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms)
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- (astronomy) Synonym of binary star.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary asteroid.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary planet.
- A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.
- (computing) Synonym of binary file.
- (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
- (finance) Synonym of binary option.
- a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
- a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system