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adj
- Temporary.
- Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.
- Not logically necessarily true or false.
- (with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
- being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
- uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances
- possible but not certain to occur
noun
- (military) A quota of troops.
- An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.
- That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
- a gathering of persons representative of some larger group
- a temporary military unit
adj
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
noun
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
adv
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
adj
noun
- (specifically) A person appointed or hired to fill a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire can be made; a temp.
- Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler.
- A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.
- (rare) That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
- something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
verb
noun
- (countable) The result of being stabilized.
- (uncountable) The process of stabilizing.
- (medicine, uncountable) A preliminary medical process for sick or injured people to attempt to keep their medical condition from deteriorating too much and too quickly before being treated in depth at a medical facility.
- the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn
- the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable
noun
- temporary cessation or suspension
- Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
- Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
- (law) Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
noun
- temporary cessation or suspension
- A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
- a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc.)
- a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy
- (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
- Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
- The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- (chemistry, physics) The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
- (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
- (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
- (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
- The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
verb
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
noun
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
adj
noun
- (Internet) A pop-up advertisement; an advertisement that is triggered to appear on a computer screen when the user accesses a particular web page.
- A folded paper element which pops up from a book, greeting card, etc.
- (baseball) A pop-up ball: a ball that has been hit to a considerable height above the infield or the shallow outfield; a pop fly.
- A business that opens for a brief temporary period only, such as a temporary restaurant.
- a store that is open for a limited period of time on temporary premises
- a short high fly ball
- a book (usually for children) that contains one or more pages such that a three-dimensional structure rises up when a page is opened
adj
noun
verb
- to be temporarily popular
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- (social media, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.
- (intransitive) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.
- (transitive) To cause to turn; to bend.
- To cleanse or clean (something, usually wool).
noun
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- a general direction in which something tends to move
- general line of orientation
- the popular taste at a given time
- (nautical) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
- An inclination in a particular direction.
- (mathematics) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
- A tendency.
- A fad or fashion style.
- (nautical) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill.
adv
prefix
adj
- permanent
- executed in or initiated from a standing position
- (of fluids) not moving or flowing
- having a supporting base
- (of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs
- not created for a particular occasion
- Performed from an erect position.
- Erect, not cut down.
- Remaining in force or status.
- Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
- Not movable; fixed.
- Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
noun
- an ordered listing of scores or results showing the relative positions of competitors (individuals or teams) in a sporting event
- the act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position
- social or financial or professional status or reputation
- (law) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.
- The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
- (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
- Duration.
- (figurative) Position or reputation in society or a profession.
- (British) Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
verb
verb
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
- defeat soundly and utterly
- strike hard
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- A heavy blow, a punch.
- A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, a psychological force.
- a severe blow
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
verb
noun
- a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
- a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
- Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.
- A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many.
- A document authorizing such an action.
- The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
verb
- (transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.
- (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
- (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to demonstrate.
- (transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
- institute, enact, or establish
- bring about
- set up or found
- place
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- use as a basis for; found on
- build or establish something abstract
- set up or lay the groundwork for
verb
- get temporarily
- take up and practice as one's own
- (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
noun
- (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
adj
- Temporary or ephemeral.
- Of a situation potentially violent.
- (programming) Of a variable etc., having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
- (economics, finance) Of a price, variable or erratic.
- Fickle.
- Of a person, quick to become angry or violent.
- (informal) Of a substance, explosive.
- (computing) Of memory, whose content is lost when the computer is powered down.
- (physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
- tending to vary often or widely
- evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures
- marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments
- liable to lead to sudden change or violence
noun
adj
- somewhat indefinite
- of worldwide scope or applicability
- prevailing among and common to the general public
- applying to all or most members of a category or group
- affecting the entire body
- not specialized or limited to one class of things
- Not of a specific class; miscellaneous.
- Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite.
- Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal.
- Not limited in use or application; applicable across a broad range.
- (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent.
- Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.
noun
- the head of a religious order or congregation
- a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)
- a general officer of the highest rank
- (nautical) A commander of naval forces; an admiral.
- (military) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that is moved one point orthogonally and confined within the palace.
- (colloquial, now historical) A general servant; a maid-of-all-work.
- (Christianity) The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits.
- (uncountable) General anesthesia.
- A great strategist or tactician.
- (uncountable, insurance) The general insurance industry.
- (countable) A general anesthetic.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
- (transitive) To encourage or sanction (something).
- (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
- (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
- To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
- To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
- (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
- (law, of a judge) To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
- lengthen or extend in duration or space
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- admit as valid
- supply with necessities and support
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- provide with nourishment
noun
noun
- temporary inactivity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
- (figurative) Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).
verb
- interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
- cease an action temporarily
- (transitive) To stop (an activity) for a while.
- (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
- (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
- (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
intj
noun
- (countable) The result of being stabilized.
- (uncountable) The process of stabilizing.
- (medicine, uncountable) A preliminary medical process for sick or injured people to attempt to keep their medical condition from deteriorating too much and too quickly before being treated in depth at a medical facility.
- the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn
- the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable
noun
- temporary cessation or suspension
- Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
- Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
- (law) Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
noun
- temporary cessation or suspension
- A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
- a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc.)
- a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy
- (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
- Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
- The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- (chemistry, physics) The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
- (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
- (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
- (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
- The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
noun
- temporary inactivity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
- (figurative) Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).
verb
- interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
- cease an action temporarily
- (transitive) To stop (an activity) for a while.
- (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
- (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
- (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
intj
verb
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
noun
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
verb
- to be temporarily popular
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- (social media, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.
- (intransitive) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.
- (transitive) To cause to turn; to bend.
- To cleanse or clean (something, usually wool).
noun
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- a general direction in which something tends to move
- general line of orientation
- the popular taste at a given time
- (nautical) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
- An inclination in a particular direction.
- (mathematics) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
- A tendency.
- A fad or fashion style.
- (nautical) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill.
verb
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
- defeat soundly and utterly
- strike hard
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- A heavy blow, a punch.
- A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, a psychological force.
- a severe blow
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
verb
noun
- a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
- a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
- Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.
- A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many.
- A document authorizing such an action.
- The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
verb
- (transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.
- (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
- (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to demonstrate.
- (transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
- institute, enact, or establish
- bring about
- set up or found
- place
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- use as a basis for; found on
- build or establish something abstract
- set up or lay the groundwork for
verb
- get temporarily
- take up and practice as one's own
- (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
noun
- (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
verb
- (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
- (transitive) To encourage or sanction (something).
- (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
- (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
- To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
- To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
- (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
- (law, of a judge) To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
- lengthen or extend in duration or space
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- admit as valid
- supply with necessities and support
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- provide with nourishment
noun
adv
adj
- Temporary.
- Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.
- Not logically necessarily true or false.
- (with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
- being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
- uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances
- possible but not certain to occur
noun
- (military) A quota of troops.
- An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.
- That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
- a gathering of persons representative of some larger group
- a temporary military unit
adj
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
noun
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
adv
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
adj
noun
- (specifically) A person appointed or hired to fill a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire can be made; a temp.
- Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler.
- A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.
- (rare) That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
- something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
verb
adj
noun
- (Internet) A pop-up advertisement; an advertisement that is triggered to appear on a computer screen when the user accesses a particular web page.
- A folded paper element which pops up from a book, greeting card, etc.
- (baseball) A pop-up ball: a ball that has been hit to a considerable height above the infield or the shallow outfield; a pop fly.
- A business that opens for a brief temporary period only, such as a temporary restaurant.
- a store that is open for a limited period of time on temporary premises
- a short high fly ball
- a book (usually for children) that contains one or more pages such that a three-dimensional structure rises up when a page is opened
adj
noun
adj
- permanent
- executed in or initiated from a standing position
- (of fluids) not moving or flowing
- having a supporting base
- (of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs
- not created for a particular occasion
- Performed from an erect position.
- Erect, not cut down.
- Remaining in force or status.
- Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
- Not movable; fixed.
- Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
noun
- an ordered listing of scores or results showing the relative positions of competitors (individuals or teams) in a sporting event
- the act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position
- social or financial or professional status or reputation
- (law) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.
- The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
- (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
- Duration.
- (figurative) Position or reputation in society or a profession.
- (British) Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
verb
adj
- Temporary or ephemeral.
- Of a situation potentially violent.
- (programming) Of a variable etc., having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
- (economics, finance) Of a price, variable or erratic.
- Fickle.
- Of a person, quick to become angry or violent.
- (informal) Of a substance, explosive.
- (computing) Of memory, whose content is lost when the computer is powered down.
- (physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
- tending to vary often or widely
- evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures
- marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments
- liable to lead to sudden change or violence
noun
adj
- somewhat indefinite
- of worldwide scope or applicability
- prevailing among and common to the general public
- applying to all or most members of a category or group
- affecting the entire body
- not specialized or limited to one class of things
- Not of a specific class; miscellaneous.
- Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite.
- Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal.
- Not limited in use or application; applicable across a broad range.
- (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent.
- Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.
noun
- the head of a religious order or congregation
- a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)
- a general officer of the highest rank
- (nautical) A commander of naval forces; an admiral.
- (military) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that is moved one point orthogonally and confined within the palace.
- (colloquial, now historical) A general servant; a maid-of-all-work.
- (Christianity) The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits.
- (uncountable) General anesthesia.
- A great strategist or tactician.
- (uncountable, insurance) The general insurance industry.
- (countable) A general anesthetic.