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noun
- The state of being undecided; indecision; vacillation.
- (computer graphics) The use of dot patterns in an image or graphic to approximate colors not available in the system palette.
- A form of noise intentionally added to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- A state of nervous excitement.
- Trembling, shaking, or shivering.
- an excited state of agitation
verb
- (figurative) To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.
- (literally) To tremble, shake, or shiver.
- To intentionally add noise to a signal to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- (computer graphics) To use dot patterns in an image or graphic to simulate colors or shades not in the system palette.
- To do something nervously.
- make a fuss; be agitated
- act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
noun
- A state of not knowing what to decide; a state of difficulty or perplexity; a state of uncertainty, hesitation or puzzlement.
- A dilemma, a difficult decision or choice.
- state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options
- a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
noun
- the state of being unsure of something
- uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
- (countable, obsolete outside of India) A point of uncertainty, especially a yes/no or a multiple-choice question
- (uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
verb
noun
- the state of being unsure of something
- being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
- (uncountable, mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
- (countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.
- (uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
noun
- Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.
- uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety)
- A Hebrew unit of time equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour.
- (pharmacy) A weight of ¹⁄₂₈₈ of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains
- an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
verb
adj
- having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
- feeling worry or concern or insecurity
- filled with fear or apprehension
- filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
- Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
- Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something). [with for]
- Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation. [with that (+ clause) or clause; or with so or not]
noun
- A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.
- One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
- A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.
- (printing, historical) In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
- A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.
- An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
- A tool used to make hair wavy.
- the act of moving back and forth
- someone who communicates by waving
- the act of pausing uncertainly
verb
- To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
- Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.
- To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way.
- Of a body part such as an eye or hand, or the voice: to become unsteady; to shake, to tremble.
- To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
- Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- be unsure or weak
- move back and forth very rapidly
- sway from side to side
- move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
- give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
verb
- be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time
- be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
- hang in the air; fly or be suspended above
- Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
- (computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
- To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
- Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
- To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
- To remain stationary or float in the air.
- (nautical) To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
noun
- An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
- (figuratively) An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
- A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
- (chiefly Southern England) A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.
verb
- be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- move or swing from side to side regularly
- (intransitive) To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.
- (intransitive) To vary above and below a mean value.
- (intransitive) To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.
verb
verb
- be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- sound with resonance
- move or swing from side to side regularly
- shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
- (transitive) To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
- (transitive, slang) To pleasure someone using a vibrator.
- (intransitive) To resonate.
- (intransitive) To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
- (transitive) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
- (intransitive, music) To use vibrato.
- (transitive) To brandish; to swing to and fro.
adj
noun
verb
- be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- (also reflexive, often passive voice) To cause (oneself or someone, or their mind, etc.) to feel confused or mystified because they cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; to confuse, to mystify, to perplex.
- Often followed by about, over, or or upon: to think deeply in bewilderment to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
- To search in a confused or mystified manner.
- Followed by through: to solve a complicated matter, a problem, etc., by working through confusing or difficult matters.
- To use (one's brain or mind) to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; also, to try to work out (a complicated matter, a problem, etc.).
- Often followed by about, over, or upon: to feel confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
noun
- a game that tests your ingenuity
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
- (countable) Often preceded by a descriptive word: a game or toy, or a problem, requiring some effort to complete or work out, which is intended as a pastime and/or to test one's mental ability.
- (countable) A thing such as a complicated matter or a problem which is difficult to make sense of or understand; also, a person who is difficult to make sense of or understand; an enigma.
- (uncountable) The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often in in a puzzle: an instance of this.
adj
- having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions
- (US) (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median
- separated or split into pieces
- disunited
- having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions
- separated into parts or pieces
- distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose
verb
verb
- feel about uncertainly or blindly
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- handle clumsily
- drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
- To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
- To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
- (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
noun
verb
- feel about uncertainly or blindly
- fondle for sexual pleasure
- search blindly or uncertainly
- To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.
- To intentionally and inappropriately touch or rub against another person, in such a manner as to make the contact appear accidental, for the purpose of one's sexual gratification.
- To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
noun
verb
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
noun
- the act of making up your mind about something
- an intuitive assumption
- the act of ending something
- the last section of a communication
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- a final settlement
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
- event whose occurrence ends something
- arrangement; settlement.
- (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
- A decision reached after careful thought.
- The end, finish, close or last part of something.
- (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
- (law) The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
- The outcome or result of a process or act.
noun
- the act of making up your mind about something
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- the outcome of a game or contest
- (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred
- the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose
- A choice or judgement.
- (uncountable) Firmness of conviction.
- (baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
- The act of deciding.
- (chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
verb
noun
- the act of making up your mind about something
- the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature
- the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation
- (countable) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.
- (countable) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.
- The addition of a distinguishing feature to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent.
- The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decisive character; resoluteness; fortitude.
- The act of determining the relations of an object, such as genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification
- The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.
- (law, otherwise obsolete) Bringing to an end; termination; limit.
- Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
- A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part
- (countable) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.
noun
- A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
- (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- (figuratively) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
verb
verb
- To hesitate in purpose or action.
- To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
- To stumble.
- To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
- To cleanse or sift, as barley.
- (ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
- (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- be unsure or weak
- speak haltingly
- move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
noun
verb
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
- interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
- (intransitive) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.
- (transitive, poetic, rare) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
- (intransitive) To stammer; to falter in speaking.
verb
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
- (intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
- (intransitive, originally Northern England, Scotland, colloquial) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
- (transitive) To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
- (intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
- (intransitive, British, dialectal) Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
- (ambitransitive) Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
- (transitive, slang) To smash (something).
- (intransitive, aviation, road transport, colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
noun
- pancake batter baked in a waffle iron
- (textiles, chiefly attributively) A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
- (countable, British) In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
- (British, dialectal) The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
- (construction, also attributively) A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
- (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
- (colloquial) (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
noun
- a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
- an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended
- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
- a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
- a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
- Lack of understanding due to dementia.
- (collective) A group of wildebeest.
- The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
- A lack of clarity or order.
- The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
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noun
- The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
- (US, military) A deadline.
- (law) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
- the pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
- The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
- excited anticipation of an approaching climax
- an uncertain cognitive state
- apprehension about what is going to happen
noun
- the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
- an inclination to want things
- something that is desired
- (uncountable) Motivation.
- (countable) Someone or something wished for.
- (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
- (uncountable) The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- walk with great difficulty
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- to arrange in a systematic order
noun
- (UK) One who attends a stag night.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- an unsteady uneven gait
noun
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- a special situation
- a vaguely specified concern
- an action
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- an artifact
- an event
- a separate and self-contained entity
- a special abstraction
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
- (slang, euphemistic) A vulva or vagina.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (MLE) Alternative form of ting.
- (informal) A romantic couple.
- (MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (informal, used possessively, chiefly in the negative) That which is favoured; personal preference.
- (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- Corporeal object.
- (informal) A custom or practice.
- Whatever can be owned.
- (informal, used possessively, with "do") One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- A living being or creature.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- (informal, with the) The central point; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
verb
noun
- A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty.
- (collective) A group of pandas (ie. red panda, giant panda)
- (medicine) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.
- A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
- A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
- A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements or causes some sort of hindrance.
- the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
- the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)
- some event that causes someone to be embarrassed
- extreme excess
noun
- a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
- the trait of being resolute
- analysis into clear-cut components
- the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung)
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord
- (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture
- finding a solution to a problem
- the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- A strong will; the state of being resolute.
- A statement of intent, a vow.
- (narratology) The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
- (mathematics) The act or process of resolving: solving.
- (homological algebra, of a given module (or, generally, object in an abelian category) M) An exact sequence of modules (or, objects in the same category as M) either terminating in M or such that M is the homology at degree zero. See Resolution (algebra).
- (medicine) In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
- (computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
- (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
- The act of discerning detail.
- (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
- (computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; the process of executing a link to it.
- A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
- (sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
- (computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
- A firm decision or an official decision.
noun
- The state of being undecided; indecision; vacillation.
- (computer graphics) The use of dot patterns in an image or graphic to approximate colors not available in the system palette.
- A form of noise intentionally added to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- A state of nervous excitement.
- Trembling, shaking, or shivering.
- an excited state of agitation
verb
- (figurative) To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.
- (literally) To tremble, shake, or shiver.
- To intentionally add noise to a signal to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- (computer graphics) To use dot patterns in an image or graphic to simulate colors or shades not in the system palette.
- To do something nervously.
- make a fuss; be agitated
- act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
noun
- A state of not knowing what to decide; a state of difficulty or perplexity; a state of uncertainty, hesitation or puzzlement.
- A dilemma, a difficult decision or choice.
- state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options
- a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
noun
- the state of being unsure of something
- uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
- (countable, obsolete outside of India) A point of uncertainty, especially a yes/no or a multiple-choice question
- (uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
verb
noun
- the state of being unsure of something
- being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
- (uncountable, mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
- (countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.
- (uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
noun
- Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.
- uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety)
- A Hebrew unit of time equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour.
- (pharmacy) A weight of ¹⁄₂₈₈ of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains
- an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
verb
noun
- A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.
- One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
- A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.
- (printing, historical) In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
- A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.
- An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
- A tool used to make hair wavy.
- the act of moving back and forth
- someone who communicates by waving
- the act of pausing uncertainly
verb
- To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
- Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.
- To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way.
- Of a body part such as an eye or hand, or the voice: to become unsteady; to shake, to tremble.
- To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
- Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- be unsure or weak
- move back and forth very rapidly
- sway from side to side
- move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
- give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
noun
- the act of making up your mind about something
- an intuitive assumption
- the act of ending something
- the last section of a communication
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- a final settlement
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
- event whose occurrence ends something
- arrangement; settlement.
- (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
- A decision reached after careful thought.
- The end, finish, close or last part of something.
- (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
- (law) The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
- The outcome or result of a process or act.
noun
- the act of making up your mind about something
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- the outcome of a game or contest
- (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred
- the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose
- A choice or judgement.
- (uncountable) Firmness of conviction.
- (baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
- The act of deciding.
- (chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
verb
noun
- the act of making up your mind about something
- the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature
- the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation
- (countable) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.
- (countable) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.
- The addition of a distinguishing feature to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent.
- The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decisive character; resoluteness; fortitude.
- The act of determining the relations of an object, such as genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification
- The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.
- (law, otherwise obsolete) Bringing to an end; termination; limit.
- Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
- A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part
- (countable) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.
noun
- A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
- (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- (figuratively) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
verb
noun
- a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
- an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended
- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
- a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
- a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
- Lack of understanding due to dementia.
- (collective) A group of wildebeest.
- The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
- A lack of clarity or order.
- The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
noun
- The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
- (US, military) A deadline.
- (law) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
- the pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
- The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
- excited anticipation of an approaching climax
- an uncertain cognitive state
- apprehension about what is going to happen
noun
- the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
- an inclination to want things
- something that is desired
- (uncountable) Motivation.
- (countable) Someone or something wished for.
- (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
- (uncountable) The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.
verb
noun
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- a special situation
- a vaguely specified concern
- an action
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- an artifact
- an event
- a separate and self-contained entity
- a special abstraction
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
- (slang, euphemistic) A vulva or vagina.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (MLE) Alternative form of ting.
- (informal) A romantic couple.
- (MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (informal, used possessively, chiefly in the negative) That which is favoured; personal preference.
- (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- Corporeal object.
- (informal) A custom or practice.
- Whatever can be owned.
- (informal, used possessively, with "do") One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- A living being or creature.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- (informal, with the) The central point; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
verb
noun
- A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty.
- (collective) A group of pandas (ie. red panda, giant panda)
- (medicine) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.
- A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
- A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
- A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements or causes some sort of hindrance.
- the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
- the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)
- some event that causes someone to be embarrassed
- extreme excess
noun
- a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
- the trait of being resolute
- analysis into clear-cut components
- the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung)
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord
- (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture
- finding a solution to a problem
- the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- A strong will; the state of being resolute.
- A statement of intent, a vow.
- (narratology) The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
- (mathematics) The act or process of resolving: solving.
- (homological algebra, of a given module (or, generally, object in an abelian category) M) An exact sequence of modules (or, objects in the same category as M) either terminating in M or such that M is the homology at degree zero. See Resolution (algebra).
- (medicine) In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
- (computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
- (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
- The act of discerning detail.
- (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
- (computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; the process of executing a link to it.
- A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
- (sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
- (computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
- A firm decision or an official decision.
noun
- A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.
- One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
- A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.
- (printing, historical) In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
- A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.
- An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
- A tool used to make hair wavy.
- the act of moving back and forth
- someone who communicates by waving
- the act of pausing uncertainly
verb
- To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
- Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.
- To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way.
- Of a body part such as an eye or hand, or the voice: to become unsteady; to shake, to tremble.
- To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
- Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- be unsure or weak
- move back and forth very rapidly
- sway from side to side
- move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
- give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
verb
- be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time
- be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
- hang in the air; fly or be suspended above
- Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
- (computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
- To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
- Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
- To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
- To remain stationary or float in the air.
- (nautical) To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
noun
- An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
- (figuratively) An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
- A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
- (chiefly Southern England) A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.
verb
- be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- move or swing from side to side regularly
- (intransitive) To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.
- (intransitive) To vary above and below a mean value.
- (intransitive) To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.
verb
verb
- be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- sound with resonance
- move or swing from side to side regularly
- shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
- (transitive) To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
- (transitive, slang) To pleasure someone using a vibrator.
- (intransitive) To resonate.
- (intransitive) To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
- (transitive) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
- (intransitive, music) To use vibrato.
- (transitive) To brandish; to swing to and fro.
adj
noun
verb
- be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- (also reflexive, often passive voice) To cause (oneself or someone, or their mind, etc.) to feel confused or mystified because they cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; to confuse, to mystify, to perplex.
- Often followed by about, over, or or upon: to think deeply in bewilderment to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
- To search in a confused or mystified manner.
- Followed by through: to solve a complicated matter, a problem, etc., by working through confusing or difficult matters.
- To use (one's brain or mind) to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; also, to try to work out (a complicated matter, a problem, etc.).
- Often followed by about, over, or upon: to feel confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
noun
- a game that tests your ingenuity
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
- (countable) Often preceded by a descriptive word: a game or toy, or a problem, requiring some effort to complete or work out, which is intended as a pastime and/or to test one's mental ability.
- (countable) A thing such as a complicated matter or a problem which is difficult to make sense of or understand; also, a person who is difficult to make sense of or understand; an enigma.
- (uncountable) The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often in in a puzzle: an instance of this.
verb
- feel about uncertainly or blindly
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- handle clumsily
- drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
- To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
- To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
- (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
noun
verb
- feel about uncertainly or blindly
- fondle for sexual pleasure
- search blindly or uncertainly
- To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.
- To intentionally and inappropriately touch or rub against another person, in such a manner as to make the contact appear accidental, for the purpose of one's sexual gratification.
- To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To hesitate in purpose or action.
- To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
- To stumble.
- To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
- To cleanse or sift, as barley.
- (ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
- (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- be unsure or weak
- speak haltingly
- move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
noun
verb
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
- interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
- (intransitive) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.
- (transitive, poetic, rare) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
- (intransitive) To stammer; to falter in speaking.
verb
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
- (intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
- (intransitive, originally Northern England, Scotland, colloquial) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
- (transitive) To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
- (intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
- (intransitive, British, dialectal) Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
- (ambitransitive) Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
- (transitive, slang) To smash (something).
- (intransitive, aviation, road transport, colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
noun
- pancake batter baked in a waffle iron
- (textiles, chiefly attributively) A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
- (countable, British) In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
- (British, dialectal) The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
- (construction, also attributively) A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
- (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
- (colloquial) (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
noun
- the state of being unsure of something
- uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
- (countable, obsolete outside of India) A point of uncertainty, especially a yes/no or a multiple-choice question
- (uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- walk with great difficulty
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- to arrange in a systematic order
noun
- (UK) One who attends a stag night.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- an unsteady uneven gait
noun
- The state of being undecided; indecision; vacillation.
- (computer graphics) The use of dot patterns in an image or graphic to approximate colors not available in the system palette.
- A form of noise intentionally added to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- A state of nervous excitement.
- Trembling, shaking, or shivering.
- an excited state of agitation
verb
- (figurative) To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.
- (literally) To tremble, shake, or shiver.
- To intentionally add noise to a signal to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
- (computer graphics) To use dot patterns in an image or graphic to simulate colors or shades not in the system palette.
- To do something nervously.
- make a fuss; be agitated
- act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
adj
- having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
- feeling worry or concern or insecurity
- filled with fear or apprehension
- filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
- Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
- Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something). [with for]
- Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation. [with that (+ clause) or clause; or with so or not]
adj
- having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions
- (US) (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median
- separated or split into pieces
- disunited
- having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions
- separated into parts or pieces
- distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose