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noun
- The act of reclassifying; a second or subsequent classification.
- (education) The assignment of a high-school student to a different graduation class (either a year earlier or later than their original), often to allow a potential athlete either to develop further or to start playing professionally earlier.
- classifying something again (usually in a new category)
noun
- the act or process of dividing
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a league ranked by quality
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- a group of ships of similar type
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- an administrative unit in government or business
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- discord that splits a group
- (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- (botany, mycology) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
noun
noun
- the act of including
- the relation of comprising something
- any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)
- the state of being included
- (countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
- (cytology) A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
- (uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
- (countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
- (histology) An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
- (countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material.
- (mathematics) A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
noun
- the act of segregating or sequestering
- a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
- The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.
- (politics) The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
- (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
- (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
- (biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
- (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
- (genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
- The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
noun
- the act of segregating or sequestering
- the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions
- seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
- a writ that authorizes the seizure of property
- The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating.
noun
- The act of distinguishing, discriminating; discrimination.
- (specifically) A feature that causes someone or something to stand out as being better; a mark of honour, rank, eminence or excellence; the quality of being distinguished.
- That which distinguishes; a single occurrence of a determining factor or feature, the fact of being divided; separation, discrimination.
- A feature that causes someone or something to stand out from others of its type.
- a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes
- high status importance owing to marked superiority
- an honor awarded to someone in recognition of achievement or superiority
- a distinguishing difference between similar things or people
verb
adj
noun
- Best of its kind.
- (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
- (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
- (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
- (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
- (sociology, countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.
- (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
- (India) a grade, standard, level of education.
- (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
- A series of lessons covering a single subject.
- (statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
- (education, countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
- (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
- A single lesson in a series.
- (object-oriented programming, countable) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
- One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
- (set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property, especially one which is not itself a set (in which case the class is called proper).
- elegance in dress or behavior
- a body of students who graduate together
- (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
- education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
- a league ranked by quality
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- people having the same social, economic, or educational status
- a body of students who are taught together
noun
noun
- the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category
- mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position
- authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
- demotion of status etc.
- (sports) Moving from one division to a lower one, due to finishing the season with fewer points than others.
- demotion in a hierarchy, for example in business
noun
- An act or instance of designating
- That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
- Signification, meaning, for example of a word or phrase.
- Selection and appointment for a purpose or office.
- the act of designating or identifying something
- identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
- the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
noun
- the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata
- a layered configuration
- the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination
- forming or depositing in layers
- the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group
- A classification or arrangement of things into different categories or groups.
- (ecology) The vertical layering of vegetation in a forest.
- (music) A layering of musical texture.
- (sociology) Society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata.
- (horticulture) The process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that the seeds must experience before germination can occur, often involving exposure to cold.
- The process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
noun
- the act of convening
- (diplomacy) an international agreement
- orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
- a large formal assembly
- something regarded as a normative example
- (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
- A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
- A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
- A meeting or gathering.
- A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
- The convening of a formal meeting.
noun
- The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.
- A body incorporated; a corporation.
- The act of creating a corporation.
- (linguistics) A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.
- (law) A doctrine of constitutional law according to which certain parts of the Bill of Rights are extended to bind individual American states. ᵂᵖ
- The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.
- The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation.
- learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself
- including by incorporating
- consolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one body
adj
- of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories
- lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black
- not having or not capable of producing colors
- Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey rather than shades of any other color.
- Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey rather than color.
- Alternative form of black and white (easily divided into diametrically opposing camps).
- (figurative, idiomatic) Classifying people, objects or concepts as two polar opposites, especially "right" and "wrong"; dichotomous and inflexible.
noun
noun
- The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
- (physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
- (cytology) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
- (genetics) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
- (music) A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially different types of jazz and reggae.
- A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
- The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
- (fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.
- an occurrence that involves the production of a union
- correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization
- a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy
- the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept
- the state of being combined into one body
- the act of fusing (or melting) together
- the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words
verb
noun
- The act, or the result, of diversifying.
- A corporate strategy in which a company acquires or establishes a business other than that of its current product.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving investing in a range of assets with differing features in order to reduce specific risk.
- the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered)
- the condition of being varied
verb
- (intransitive, law) To transfer one's obligations from one person to another person.
- (intransitive, law) To consent to the transfer of one's obligations as tenant under a lease to a new landlord.
- (intransitive, law) To acknowledge the jurisdiction of (a particular court) over one's dispute.
- acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord
noun
- the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
- (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings
- the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
- care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
- (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
- (US, law) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
- An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
- The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
noun
- The act or process of devolving.
- (banking, India) A process whereby if an investment issue is undersubscribed, an underwriter is required to subscribe to the remaining shares; the outstanding unsubscribed amount devolves onto the underwriter.
- the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government)
noun
verb
- (transitive, British, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
- (intransitive) To skid.
- (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
- simple past of slay
- (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
- (transitive, rail transport) To move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
- (intransitive) To pivot.
- (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
noun
- the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided
- a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- an area composed of subdivided lots
- (Philippines) A gated community located within a barangay.
- (countable, uncountable) A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
- (countable) A group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
- (countable) Such a piece that has been divided.
- (countable) A parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
verb
noun
- The act of reclassifying; a second or subsequent classification.
- (education) The assignment of a high-school student to a different graduation class (either a year earlier or later than their original), often to allow a potential athlete either to develop further or to start playing professionally earlier.
- classifying something again (usually in a new category)
noun
- the act or process of dividing
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a league ranked by quality
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- a group of ships of similar type
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- an administrative unit in government or business
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- discord that splits a group
- (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- (botany, mycology) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
noun
noun
- the act of including
- the relation of comprising something
- any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)
- the state of being included
- (countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
- (cytology) A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
- (uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
- (countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
- (histology) An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
- (countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material.
- (mathematics) A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
noun
- the act of segregating or sequestering
- a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
- The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.
- (politics) The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
- (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
- (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
- (biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
- (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
- (genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
- The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
noun
- the act of segregating or sequestering
- the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions
- seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
- a writ that authorizes the seizure of property
- The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating.
noun
- The act of distinguishing, discriminating; discrimination.
- (specifically) A feature that causes someone or something to stand out as being better; a mark of honour, rank, eminence or excellence; the quality of being distinguished.
- That which distinguishes; a single occurrence of a determining factor or feature, the fact of being divided; separation, discrimination.
- A feature that causes someone or something to stand out from others of its type.
- a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes
- high status importance owing to marked superiority
- an honor awarded to someone in recognition of achievement or superiority
- a distinguishing difference between similar things or people
noun
noun
- the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category
- mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position
- authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
- demotion of status etc.
- (sports) Moving from one division to a lower one, due to finishing the season with fewer points than others.
- demotion in a hierarchy, for example in business
noun
- An act or instance of designating
- That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
- Signification, meaning, for example of a word or phrase.
- Selection and appointment for a purpose or office.
- the act of designating or identifying something
- identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
- the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
noun
- the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata
- a layered configuration
- the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination
- forming or depositing in layers
- the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group
- A classification or arrangement of things into different categories or groups.
- (ecology) The vertical layering of vegetation in a forest.
- (music) A layering of musical texture.
- (sociology) Society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata.
- (horticulture) The process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that the seeds must experience before germination can occur, often involving exposure to cold.
- The process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
noun
- the act of convening
- (diplomacy) an international agreement
- orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
- a large formal assembly
- something regarded as a normative example
- (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
- A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
- A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
- A meeting or gathering.
- A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
- The convening of a formal meeting.
noun
- The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.
- A body incorporated; a corporation.
- The act of creating a corporation.
- (linguistics) A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.
- (law) A doctrine of constitutional law according to which certain parts of the Bill of Rights are extended to bind individual American states. ᵂᵖ
- The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.
- The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation.
- learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself
- including by incorporating
- consolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one body
noun
- The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
- (physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
- (cytology) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
- (genetics) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
- (music) A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially different types of jazz and reggae.
- A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
- The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
- (fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.
- an occurrence that involves the production of a union
- correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization
- a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy
- the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept
- the state of being combined into one body
- the act of fusing (or melting) together
- the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words
verb
noun
- The act, or the result, of diversifying.
- A corporate strategy in which a company acquires or establishes a business other than that of its current product.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving investing in a range of assets with differing features in order to reduce specific risk.
- the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered)
- the condition of being varied
noun
- the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
- (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings
- the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
- care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
- (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
- (US, law) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
- An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
- The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
noun
- The act or process of devolving.
- (banking, India) A process whereby if an investment issue is undersubscribed, an underwriter is required to subscribe to the remaining shares; the outstanding unsubscribed amount devolves onto the underwriter.
- the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government)
noun
verb
- (transitive, British, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
- (intransitive) To skid.
- (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
- simple past of slay
- (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
- (transitive, rail transport) To move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
- (intransitive) To pivot.
- (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
noun
- the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided
- a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- an area composed of subdivided lots
- (Philippines) A gated community located within a barangay.
- (countable, uncountable) A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
- (countable) A group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
- (countable) Such a piece that has been divided.
- (countable) A parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
verb
verb
adj
noun
- Best of its kind.
- (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
- (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
- (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
- (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
- (sociology, countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.
- (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
- (India) a grade, standard, level of education.
- (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
- A series of lessons covering a single subject.
- (statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
- (education, countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
- (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
- A single lesson in a series.
- (object-oriented programming, countable) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
- One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
- (set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property, especially one which is not itself a set (in which case the class is called proper).
- elegance in dress or behavior
- a body of students who graduate together
- (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
- education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
- a league ranked by quality
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- people having the same social, economic, or educational status
- a body of students who are taught together
verb
- (intransitive, law) To transfer one's obligations from one person to another person.
- (intransitive, law) To consent to the transfer of one's obligations as tenant under a lease to a new landlord.
- (intransitive, law) To acknowledge the jurisdiction of (a particular court) over one's dispute.
- acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord
adj
- of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories
- lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black
- not having or not capable of producing colors
- Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey rather than shades of any other color.
- Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey rather than color.
- Alternative form of black and white (easily divided into diametrically opposing camps).
- (figurative, idiomatic) Classifying people, objects or concepts as two polar opposites, especially "right" and "wrong"; dichotomous and inflexible.