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verb
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- give to, and receive from, one another
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
noun
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
- (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- (telephony) A central office.
- A conversation.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
verb
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- make a shift in or exchange of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To be swung or whisked.
- (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
- (sports, transitive) To move (the ball or equivalent) from one side of the playing area to the other.
- (intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- To trim.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To swing or whisk.
- (transitive) To exchange.
noun
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- (especially BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- (historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- (sports) A play in which the ball (or equivalent) is moved from one side of the playing area to the other.
- A change or exchange.
- (music) Synonym of rute.
- (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- (rail transport, US, Philippines) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- (multiplicity slang) The process of the currently fronting headmate changing; an instance of this.
- (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- (card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
- (slang, metonymic) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.
- (firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.
adj
verb
- To change; modify the order of something.
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
- (ambitransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- (ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
- move about, move back and forth
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
- walk by dragging one's feet
noun
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.
- (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
- The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
- the act of mixing cards haphazardly
adj
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
- (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Late or behindhand.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Retarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
- (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- retarded in intellectual development
- (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
- having made less than normal progress
- directed or facing toward the back or rear
adv
- In a reversed order or sequence.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- Toward or into the past.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
- in or to or toward a past time
noun
verb
- change the order or arrangement of
- travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- exchange positions without a change in value
- (transitive, insurance, pensions) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
- (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
- To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
- (transitive, finance, law) To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.
- (intransitive) To journey, to make a journey
- (intransitive, Philippines) To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
- (transitive, law, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
- (intransitive, US, UK, Canada) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
noun
verb
- change the order or arrangement of
- put (a piece of music) into another key
- cause to change places
- transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
- transfer from one place or period to another
- change key
- exchange positions without a change in value
- (transitive, algebra) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.
- (transitive, graph theory) To reverse the direction of every edge of (a graph).
- (transitive, law, chiefly of the European Union) To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures.
- (intransitive, chess) To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.
- (transitive, music) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key.
- (transitive) To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
- (transitive, linear algebra) To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
noun
- a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix
- (graph theory) A graph whose every edge has had its direction reversed.
- (linear algebra) The matrix derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.
- (linear algebra) The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
adj
verb
- arrange in a sequence
- determine the order of constituents in
- (transitive) To arrange (something) in an order.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To determine the order of monomers in (a biological polymer), e.g. of amino acids in (a protein), or of bases in (a nucleic acid).
- (transitive, music) To produce (music) with a sequencer.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To proceed through a sequence or series of things.
noun
- serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern
- film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
- the action of following in order
- several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
- a following of one thing after another in time
- (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
- A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.
- (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
- A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show, or other video medium.
- A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
- (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
- A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
noun
- The swapping of positions within a sequence; transposition or permutation.
- (law) The process of changing a subsidiary title, such as that of a tenant, to one that is independently held.
- (music) A composition technique in which a sequence of elements composed of notes or rhythms is repeated in permuted orders.
verb
noun
verb
- recur in repeating sequences
- cause to go through a recurring sequence
- ride a motorcycle
- ride a bicycle
- pass through a cycle
- (electronics) To turn power off and back on
- To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
noun
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- a periodically repeated sequence of events
- the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)
- a series of poems or songs on the same theme
- a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- An age; a long period of time.
- A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
- (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
- (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
- A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
- (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
- (weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
- (aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
- (usually plural) A hertz; cycle per second.
- An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- (sports) A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower.
- (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- (specifically and now usually) A bicycle.
verb
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- form a community
- come to terms
- sink down or precipitate
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- go under
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- take up residence and become established
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- fix firmly
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- come as if by falling
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- come to rest
- establish or develop as a residence
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
- (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- (transitive) In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. Also used figuratively.)
- (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- (transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- (intransitive, with "in") To be established in a profession or in employment.
- (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
- (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- (British, dialectal) To silence, especially by force.
- (transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- (transitive) To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- To kill.
- (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
- (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
- (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
noun
adj
- capable of reversing or being reversed
- capable of being reversed
- capable of being reversed or used with either side out
- capable of assuming or producing either of two states
- (of clothing) Able to be worn inside out.
- (thermodynamics) Capable of returning to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.
- (chemistry, of a chemical reaction) Capable of proceeding in either direction.
- Able to be reversed.
- (physics, of a phase change) Capable of returning to the original state.
- (law) Providing sufficient reason for a court decision to be overturned on appeal.
noun
adv
adj
noun
- assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence
- careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement
- a light informal meal
- (computing, databases) The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
- (textual criticism) The process of establishing a corrected text of a work by comparing differing manuscripts or editions of it; also used to describe the work resulting from such a process.
- (civil law, inheritance, Scotland) An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
- The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
- (ecclesiastical) Presentation to a benefice.
- Any light meal or snack.
- (civil law, inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
- The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
- A collection, a gathering.
- (ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
- (in the plural) The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
- A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
- The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
verb
- make an alteration to
- become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
- cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
- insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
- remove the ovaries of
- (intransitive) To become different.
- (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
- (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
- (transitive) To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.
- (ambitransitive) To change the form or structure of.
noun
character
contraction
verb
- to assemble in proper sequence
- compare critically; of texts
- (transitive) To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.
- (transitive, Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.
- (transitive) To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.
- (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence.
noun
- (by extension) A sequence of items that follows the same pattern both forwards and backwards.
- (by extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
- (genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand
- A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
- a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
noun
verb
verb
- (transitive) To reverse (a change).
- (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- (intransitive, Islam) To convert to Islam.
- (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- (intransitive, originally India, now global) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
- (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y=a+bx+cx²+⋯, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
- go back to a previous state
- undergo reversion, as in a mutation
noun
- (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- One who, or that which, reverts.
adv
adj
noun
verb
- To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
- (film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
- To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- To dress again.
- To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- make reparations or amends for
noun
- One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
- A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
- (film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
- The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
- A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
- a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
verb
- alter the functioning or setting of
- accomplish by rotating
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- to send or let go
- pass to the other side of
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- to change orientation or direction
- move around an axis or a center
- get by buying and selling
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- cause to move around or rotate
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become officially one year older
- go sour or spoil
- change to the contrary
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- change color
- undergo a change or development
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- direct at someone
- (transitive, roleplaying games) To magically or divinely repel undead.
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (intransitive, fantasy) To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- (transitive) To direct or impel (something) into a place.
- (transitive) To twist or sprain.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (intransitive, of a body, person, etc) To move about an axis through itself.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To hinge; to depend.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (copulative) To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
- (transitive, slang, sometimes offensive) To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
noun
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a movement in a new direction
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- a circular segment of a curve
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
- an unforeseen development
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- The transition from one period or era to another.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A walk to and fro.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (UK, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The time required to complete a project.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
verb
- (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
- (transitive) To geld.
- (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
- (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
- (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- examine in order to test suitability
- arrange or order by classes or categories
noun
- (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
- (mathematics) A type.
- (British, Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
- (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- An act of sorting.
- (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
- A general type.
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a person of a particular character or nature
- an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
- an approximate definition or example
character
contraction
symbol
verb
- To tweak
- (intransitive) To be realized and understood; to click.
- To twitch
- (transitive) To beat with twigs.
- To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
- (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
- To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- branch out in a twiglike manner
noun
character
punct
character
contraction
punct
verb
- arrange serially
- (computing) To convert an object into a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties.
- To publish (a book, play, etc.) in regular instalments, e.g. in a magazine.
- To write a television program, novel, or other form of entertainment as a sequence of shorter works with a common story.
verb
verb
noun
noun
- Something that follows in a given sequence.
- (mathematics) A sequential calculus
- (logic) A disjunctive set of logical formulae which is partitioned into two subsets; the first subset, called the antecedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as false, and the second subset, called the succedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as true. (The set is written without set brackets and the separation between the two subsets is denoted by a turnstile symbol, which may be read "give(s)".)
adj
verb
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
- turn inside out or upside down
- make an inversion (in a musical composition)
- (anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
- (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
- (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
adj
noun
- (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
- (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
- (Internet slang, conspiracy theories) Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
- (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
- (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.
- A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
- The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
noun
- The swapping of positions within a sequence; transposition or permutation.
- (law) The process of changing a subsidiary title, such as that of a tenant, to one that is independently held.
- (music) A composition technique in which a sequence of elements composed of notes or rhythms is repeated in permuted orders.
noun
- assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence
- careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement
- a light informal meal
- (computing, databases) The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
- (textual criticism) The process of establishing a corrected text of a work by comparing differing manuscripts or editions of it; also used to describe the work resulting from such a process.
- (civil law, inheritance, Scotland) An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
- The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
- (ecclesiastical) Presentation to a benefice.
- Any light meal or snack.
- (civil law, inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
- The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
- A collection, a gathering.
- (ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
- (in the plural) The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
- A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
- The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
noun
- (by extension) A sequence of items that follows the same pattern both forwards and backwards.
- (by extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
- (genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand
- A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
- a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
noun
verb
noun
- Something that follows in a given sequence.
- (mathematics) A sequential calculus
- (logic) A disjunctive set of logical formulae which is partitioned into two subsets; the first subset, called the antecedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as false, and the second subset, called the succedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as true. (The set is written without set brackets and the separation between the two subsets is denoted by a turnstile symbol, which may be read "give(s)".)
adj
verb
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- give to, and receive from, one another
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
noun
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
- (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- (telephony) A central office.
- A conversation.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
verb
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- make a shift in or exchange of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To be swung or whisked.
- (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
- (sports, transitive) To move (the ball or equivalent) from one side of the playing area to the other.
- (intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- To trim.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To swing or whisk.
- (transitive) To exchange.
noun
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- (especially BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- (historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- (sports) A play in which the ball (or equivalent) is moved from one side of the playing area to the other.
- A change or exchange.
- (music) Synonym of rute.
- (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- (rail transport, US, Philippines) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- (multiplicity slang) The process of the currently fronting headmate changing; an instance of this.
- (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- (card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
- (slang, metonymic) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.
- (firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.
adj
verb
- To change; modify the order of something.
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
- (ambitransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- (ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
- move about, move back and forth
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
- walk by dragging one's feet
noun
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.
- (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
- The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
- the act of mixing cards haphazardly
verb
- change the order or arrangement of
- travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- exchange positions without a change in value
- (transitive, insurance, pensions) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
- (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
- To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
- (transitive, finance, law) To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.
- (intransitive) To journey, to make a journey
- (intransitive, Philippines) To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
- (transitive, law, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
- (intransitive, US, UK, Canada) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
noun
verb
- change the order or arrangement of
- put (a piece of music) into another key
- cause to change places
- transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
- transfer from one place or period to another
- change key
- exchange positions without a change in value
- (transitive, algebra) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.
- (transitive, graph theory) To reverse the direction of every edge of (a graph).
- (transitive, law, chiefly of the European Union) To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures.
- (intransitive, chess) To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.
- (transitive, music) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key.
- (transitive) To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
- (transitive, linear algebra) To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
noun
- a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix
- (graph theory) A graph whose every edge has had its direction reversed.
- (linear algebra) The matrix derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.
- (linear algebra) The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
adj
verb
- arrange in a sequence
- determine the order of constituents in
- (transitive) To arrange (something) in an order.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To determine the order of monomers in (a biological polymer), e.g. of amino acids in (a protein), or of bases in (a nucleic acid).
- (transitive, music) To produce (music) with a sequencer.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To proceed through a sequence or series of things.
noun
- serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern
- film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
- the action of following in order
- several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
- a following of one thing after another in time
- (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
- A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.
- (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
- A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show, or other video medium.
- A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
- (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
- A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
verb
noun
verb
- recur in repeating sequences
- cause to go through a recurring sequence
- ride a motorcycle
- ride a bicycle
- pass through a cycle
- (electronics) To turn power off and back on
- To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
noun
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- a periodically repeated sequence of events
- the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)
- a series of poems or songs on the same theme
- a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- An age; a long period of time.
- A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
- (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
- (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
- A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
- (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
- (weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
- (aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
- (usually plural) A hertz; cycle per second.
- An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- (sports) A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower.
- (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- (specifically and now usually) A bicycle.
verb
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- form a community
- come to terms
- sink down or precipitate
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- go under
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- take up residence and become established
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- fix firmly
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- come as if by falling
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- come to rest
- establish or develop as a residence
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
- (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- (transitive) In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. Also used figuratively.)
- (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- (transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- (intransitive, with "in") To be established in a profession or in employment.
- (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
- (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- (British, dialectal) To silence, especially by force.
- (transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- (transitive) To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- To kill.
- (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
- (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
- (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
noun
verb
- make an alteration to
- become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
- cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
- insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
- remove the ovaries of
- (intransitive) To become different.
- (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
- (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
- (transitive) To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.
- (ambitransitive) To change the form or structure of.
noun
verb
- to assemble in proper sequence
- compare critically; of texts
- (transitive) To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.
- (transitive, Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.
- (transitive) To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.
- (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence.
verb
- (transitive) To reverse (a change).
- (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- (intransitive, Islam) To convert to Islam.
- (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- (intransitive, originally India, now global) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
- (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y=a+bx+cx²+⋯, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
- go back to a previous state
- undergo reversion, as in a mutation
noun
- (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- One who, or that which, reverts.
verb
- To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
- (film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
- To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- To dress again.
- To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- make reparations or amends for
noun
- One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
- A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
- (film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
- The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
- A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
- a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
verb
- alter the functioning or setting of
- accomplish by rotating
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- to send or let go
- pass to the other side of
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- to change orientation or direction
- move around an axis or a center
- get by buying and selling
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- cause to move around or rotate
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become officially one year older
- go sour or spoil
- change to the contrary
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- change color
- undergo a change or development
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- direct at someone
- (transitive, roleplaying games) To magically or divinely repel undead.
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (intransitive, fantasy) To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- (transitive) To direct or impel (something) into a place.
- (transitive) To twist or sprain.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (intransitive, of a body, person, etc) To move about an axis through itself.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To hinge; to depend.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (copulative) To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
- (transitive, slang, sometimes offensive) To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
noun
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a movement in a new direction
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- a circular segment of a curve
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
- an unforeseen development
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- The transition from one period or era to another.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A walk to and fro.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (UK, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The time required to complete a project.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
verb
- (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
- (transitive) To geld.
- (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
- (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
- (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- examine in order to test suitability
- arrange or order by classes or categories
noun
- (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
- (mathematics) A type.
- (British, Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
- (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- An act of sorting.
- (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
- A general type.
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a person of a particular character or nature
- an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
- an approximate definition or example
verb
- To tweak
- (intransitive) To be realized and understood; to click.
- To twitch
- (transitive) To beat with twigs.
- To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
- (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
- To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- branch out in a twiglike manner
noun
verb
- arrange serially
- (computing) To convert an object into a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties.
- To publish (a book, play, etc.) in regular instalments, e.g. in a magazine.
- To write a television program, novel, or other form of entertainment as a sequence of shorter works with a common story.
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verb
noun
verb
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
- turn inside out or upside down
- make an inversion (in a musical composition)
- (anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
- (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
- (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
adj
noun
- (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
- (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
- (Internet slang, conspiracy theories) Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
- (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
- (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.
- A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
- The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
adj
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
- (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Late or behindhand.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Retarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
- (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- retarded in intellectual development
- (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
- having made less than normal progress
- directed or facing toward the back or rear
adv
- In a reversed order or sequence.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- Toward or into the past.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
- in or to or toward a past time
noun
adv
adj
adv
adj
noun
adj
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
- (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Late or behindhand.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Retarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
- (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- retarded in intellectual development
- (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
- having made less than normal progress
- directed or facing toward the back or rear
adv
- In a reversed order or sequence.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- Toward or into the past.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
- in or to or toward a past time
noun
adj
- capable of reversing or being reversed
- capable of being reversed
- capable of being reversed or used with either side out
- capable of assuming or producing either of two states
- (of clothing) Able to be worn inside out.
- (thermodynamics) Capable of returning to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.
- (chemistry, of a chemical reaction) Capable of proceeding in either direction.
- Able to be reversed.
- (physics, of a phase change) Capable of returning to the original state.
- (law) Providing sufficient reason for a court decision to be overturned on appeal.