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adv
prep_phrase
noun
adv
- within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time
- despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons
- up to the present time
- used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
- used after a superlative
- In addition.
- (after 'have' and certain copulative verbs, followed by an infinitive) Not as of the time referenced.
- At some future time; eventually.
- In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.
- In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.
- (degree) Even.
conj
noun
verb
prep_phrase
adv
- for an extended time or at a distant time
- for an extended distance
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- A long time (see usage notes).
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
adj
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- good at remembering
- involving substantial risk
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- Having great duration.
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
verb
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
prefix
- At, at the suffixed time. Forming an unfixed point in time, rather than a duration.
- (no longer productive) To do excessively.
- (no longer productive) Parting: forming verbs that involve cleaving, breaking, or sundering.
- Of, as characteristic of the suffixed time period. Forming adverbs and adjectives.
- Current, the current form of the suffixed time. Forming nouns.
- During the suffixed time. Forming adverbs.
- Toward in direction or location.
- (no longer productive) Moving.
- Adding, additional in quantity.
- (no longer productive) Completely.
- On (this) time, which is a fixed point in time. Forming adverbs.
adj
- indefinite in time or position
- (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
- being a single entity made by combining separate components
- eminent beyond or above comparison
- of the same kind or quality
- used of a single unit or thing; not two or more
- having the indivisible character of a unit
- Sole, only.
- Of a period of time, being particular.
- In agreement.
- Whole, entire.
- Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
- The same.
noun
- a single person or thing
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).
- (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
- (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
- (US) A one-dollar bill.
- One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- A joke or amusing anecdote.
- (Internet slang, leetspeak, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !, used to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- The digit or figure 1.
- (followed by for) A person with a tendency to do something.
- (mathematics) The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
- An alcoholic drink, especially a pint or can of beer.
det
num
- (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
- (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
- (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
- The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
particle
- A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the likelihood of something occurring, as a characteristic of something else.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
pron
- (Singlish, less common) Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
- (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
- (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).
- (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.
- (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
verb
noun
- an indefinitely short time
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a small fragment
- the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press
- piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding
- an instance of some kind
- a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
- the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers
- (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
- (informal) A small fraction above a whole number.
- (slang) A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- Ellipsis of bit part.
- A portion of something.
- A replaceable tip for a hand tool or power tool, comprising the portion that drives a fastener.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- (historical) A unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc.
- (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece.
- (historical) A unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- Synonym of microbitcoin.
- (historical, US and Canada) A unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real.
- (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- A small amount of something.
- (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
adj
verb
noun
- an indefinitely short time
- a particular point in time
- a short note
- a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
- a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
- distance measured by the time taken to cover it
- (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A point in time; a moment.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
- (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.
adj
verb
noun
adj
adv
num
symbol
noun
- an indefinitely short time
- a particular point in time
- at this time
- the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
- having important effects or influence
- a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
- (Internet slang, frequently derogatory, usually preceded by a noun) An embarrassing event, supposed to be characteristic of some person, group, or situation.
- (physics, mechanics) Ellipsis of moment of force.
- (mathematics) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
- (figurative) Weight or importance.
- (colloquial) A fit; a brief tantrum.
- A particular point of time; an instant.
- (neurology, informal) A petit mal episode; such a spell.
- A brief, unspecified amount of time.
- A particular point of space; a spot.
- (colloquial, Internet slang, of a person) The current center of public attention and awe; the most important celebrity in their prime.
- (mathematics) A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.
- (historical, unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
noun
- an indefinitely short time
- a particular point in time
- following the first in an ordering or series
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- a speech seconding a motion
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
- The second gear of an engine.
- (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
- A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- (baseball) Second base.
- (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- (informal) A second-class honours degree.
adj
- coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude
- a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
adv
verb
- give support or one's approval to
- transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment
- (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
- (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
- (transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
noun
- An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
- The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- A physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this.
- A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.
- A gap; an empty place.
- A specific (specified) period of time.
- (music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.
- Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room.
- (letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad).
- (countable, figuratively) A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour.
- The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
- The distance between objects.
- A physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
- (geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
- (countable, mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space).
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries; (architecture) such a space inside or outside a building, often with a specified use.
- a blank area
- (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
- an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)
- the interval between two times
- any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
- the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
- one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff
- an area reserved for some particular purpose
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
verb
- (intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.
- (transitive, science fiction) To kill (someone) by ejection into outer space, usually without a space suit.
- To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
- (transitive) To set some distance apart.
- To space out (become distracted, lose focus).
- place at intervals
noun
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adj
- of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date
- unaffected by time
- having no known beginning and presumably no end
- not bearing a date
- Without a start; immemorial
- Having no date—a meeting with a lover or potential lover.
- Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.
- Out of one's head; deranged.
- (British, dialect, slang) Thick-headed.
- Timeless; immortal
adj
- Without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite.
- (linguistics) Designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things.
- (mathematics) Being an integral without specified limits.
- Undecided or uncertain.
- Vague or unclear.
- vague or not clearly defined or stated
- not decided or not known
noun
adv
noun
- work done in addition to regular working hours
- playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie
- (uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
- (sports, countable, US) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.
- (uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.
- A period of time longer than scheduled.
prep_phrase
verb
noun
- the act or process of determining the time
- The quality of being punctual, keeping to a set time.
- The measurement of time, or determining what the local time is: the act or process of keeping the time.
- Measuring and recording the time spent by employees on the clock, including the timepoints at which they clocked in and clocked out.
verb
noun
- a particular point in time
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- A single, usually precise, point in time.
- A very short period of time; a moment.
- Ellipsis of instant camera.
- A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
adj
adv
prep
- Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
- Following a noun.
- (horse breeding) Designates a horse's sire (“male parent”).
- Invokes an authority in an oath.
- (chiefly Yeshivish) At; with; among.
- Per; with or in proportion to each.
- Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
- Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
- Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
- Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
- [with the] Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
- (not in common modern use) Following an adjective.
- Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
- Following a passive verb.
- Near or next to.
- In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
- Indicates a referenced source: According to.
- (mathematics) multiplied by or (chiefly South Asia) divided by
- Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
- From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
- (nautical) in a windward direction, sailing near to the direction from which the wind is blowing
adj
adv
- (uncommon outside the phrase 'put by') Aside, away.
- In the vicinity, near.
- Along a path which runs past someone or something.
- (uncommon except in set phrases) Beyond or past a certain point.
- To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
- so as to pass a given point
- in reserve; not for immediate use
noun
noun
- An amount of time or a particular time interval.
- (in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
- (finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.
- the period of time during which something continues
- continuance in time
- the property of enduring or continuing in time
noun
- a seemingly endless time interval (waiting)
- time without end
- a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife
- (uncountable, philosophy, theology) Existence outside of time.
- (informal, hyperbolic) A comparatively long time.
- (metaphysical) The remainder of time that elapses after death.
- (uncountable) Existence without end, infinite time.
- (countable) A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future.
noun
adv
- prior to a specified or implied time
- So soon.
- Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
- (Singapore, Singlish) Marks a change in state, more or less in the same manner as the inchoative aspect.
- (US, Canada) An intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation.
- (Singapore, Singlish) Indicates the completion of an action (whether past or hypothetical), or more generally, perfective aspect.
prep
- Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
- Pertaining to; with regard to.
- Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
- Contained by; inside.
- Wearing (an item of clothing).
- Surrounded by; among; amidst.
- (grammar, phonetics) Characterized by.
- Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
- Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
- By (doing something); indicating action causing an effect or achieving a purpose.
- Indicating an order or arrangement.
- Denoting a state of the subject.
- Expressing abstract containment.
- At the end of (a period of time).
- Within the bounds or limits of.
- Into.
- (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
- During (a period of time).
adj
- In fashion; popular.
- (of fire or fuel) (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
- (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
- Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
- Having been collected or received.
- (not comparable) Located inside something.
- Inserted or fitted into something.
- (sports, of the ball or other playing implement) Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
- (informal) Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
- Incoming.
- Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
- (cricket) Currently batting.
- Having used, consumed , or invested a certain amount.
- (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
- (law) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
- currently fashionable
- holding office
- directed or bound inward
adv
- At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
- After the beginning of something.
- Towards the speaker or other reference point.
- So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
- (in combination, after a verb) Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
- to or toward the inside of
noun
noun
- a limited period of time
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- One whose employment has been terminated
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- Relations among people.
verb
adj
noun
- An interval of time between events.
- (theology) A fall or apostasy.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
- a mistake resulting from inattention
- a failure to maintain a higher state
verb
- (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
- To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
- (intransitive) To become void.
- To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
- (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- for time to move forward
- drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- let slip
- end, at least for a long time
- go back to bad behavior
verb
- occur at a specified time or place
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- slope downward
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- lose one's chastity
- yield to temptation or sin
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- lose an upright position suddenly
- move in a specified direction
- begin vigorously
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be due
- be inherited by
- come out; issue
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- lose office or power
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- come under, be classified or included
- come into the possession of
- fall or flow in a certain way
- come as if by falling
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- fall from clouds
- be captured
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- be cast down
- to be given by right or inheritance
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- go as if by falling
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To come down, to drop or descend.
- (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become (chiefly used with negative states).
- (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To be brought to the ground.
- (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To visit; to go to a place.
noun
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a movement downward
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- a downward slope or bend
- (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- That which falls or cascades.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
- (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The height of that which falls or cascades.
- (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
intj
noun
- the time interval during which something or somebody is away
- failure to be present
- the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy
- the state of being absent
- (medicine) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
- Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
- The period of someone being away.
- Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
- A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
- Lack; deficiency; non-existence.
- (fencing) Lack of contact between blades.
adj
- being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
- having died recently
- of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages
- (used especially of persons) of the immediate past
- of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
- after the expected or usual time; delayed
- at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
- Near the end of a period of time.
- (not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)
- Not having had an expected menstrual period.
- (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period.
- Specifically, near the end of the day.
- Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.
- Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
- Levied as a surcharge on a payment which has not arrived by a specified deadline.
- (astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.
adv
noun
verb
- occur between other event or between certain points of time
- get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
- be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events
- (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
- (law) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
- (ambitransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
- (intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action. [with in]
- (intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
noun
- time without end
- (countable, mathematics) A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.
- (countable, uncountable) The symbol ∞.
- (countable, topology, mathematical analysis) An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.
- (uncountable) endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.
- (uncountable) A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.
noun
- a definite length of time marked off by two instants
- the difference in pitch between two notes
- the distance between things
- a set containing all points (or all real numbers) between two given endpoints
- (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.
- (chiefly British and India) An intermission.
- A period of time.
- (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
- (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
- A distance in space.
- (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play.
adv
adj
noun
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- smallest American sandpiper
- an individual's prescribed share of work
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).
- (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
verb
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- subsist on a meager allowance
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
adj
verb
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
adj
noun
noun
- the point in time at which something ends
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- either extremity of something that has length
- a final state
- a final part or section
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
noun
- an indefinitely short time
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a small fragment
- the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press
- piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding
- an instance of some kind
- a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
- the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers
- (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
- (informal) A small fraction above a whole number.
- (slang) A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- Ellipsis of bit part.
- A portion of something.
- A replaceable tip for a hand tool or power tool, comprising the portion that drives a fastener.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- (historical) A unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc.
- (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece.
- (historical) A unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- Synonym of microbitcoin.
- (historical, US and Canada) A unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real.
- (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- A small amount of something.
- (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
adj
verb
noun
- an indefinitely short time
- a particular point in time
- a short note
- a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
- a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
- distance measured by the time taken to cover it
- (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A point in time; a moment.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
- (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.
adj
verb
noun
adj
adv
num
symbol
noun
- an indefinitely short time
- a particular point in time
- at this time
- the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
- having important effects or influence
- a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
- (Internet slang, frequently derogatory, usually preceded by a noun) An embarrassing event, supposed to be characteristic of some person, group, or situation.
- (physics, mechanics) Ellipsis of moment of force.
- (mathematics) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
- (figurative) Weight or importance.
- (colloquial) A fit; a brief tantrum.
- A particular point of time; an instant.
- (neurology, informal) A petit mal episode; such a spell.
- A brief, unspecified amount of time.
- A particular point of space; a spot.
- (colloquial, Internet slang, of a person) The current center of public attention and awe; the most important celebrity in their prime.
- (mathematics) A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.
- (historical, unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
noun
- an indefinitely short time
- a particular point in time
- following the first in an ordering or series
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- a speech seconding a motion
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
- The second gear of an engine.
- (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
- A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- (baseball) Second base.
- (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- (informal) A second-class honours degree.
adj
- coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude
- a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
adv
verb
- give support or one's approval to
- transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment
- (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
- (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
- (transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
noun
- An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
- The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- A physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this.
- A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.
- A gap; an empty place.
- A specific (specified) period of time.
- (music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.
- Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room.
- (letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad).
- (countable, figuratively) A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour.
- The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
- The distance between objects.
- A physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
- (geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
- (countable, mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space).
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries; (architecture) such a space inside or outside a building, often with a specified use.
- a blank area
- (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
- an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)
- the interval between two times
- any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
- the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
- one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff
- an area reserved for some particular purpose
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
verb
- (intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.
- (transitive, science fiction) To kill (someone) by ejection into outer space, usually without a space suit.
- To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
- (transitive) To set some distance apart.
- To space out (become distracted, lose focus).
- place at intervals
noun
conj
prep
verb
noun
- the act or process of determining the time
- The quality of being punctual, keeping to a set time.
- The measurement of time, or determining what the local time is: the act or process of keeping the time.
- Measuring and recording the time spent by employees on the clock, including the timepoints at which they clocked in and clocked out.
verb
noun
- a particular point in time
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- A single, usually precise, point in time.
- A very short period of time; a moment.
- Ellipsis of instant camera.
- A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
adj
adv
noun
- An amount of time or a particular time interval.
- (in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
- (finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.
- the period of time during which something continues
- continuance in time
- the property of enduring or continuing in time
noun
- a seemingly endless time interval (waiting)
- time without end
- a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife
- (uncountable, philosophy, theology) Existence outside of time.
- (informal, hyperbolic) A comparatively long time.
- (metaphysical) The remainder of time that elapses after death.
- (uncountable) Existence without end, infinite time.
- (countable) A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future.
noun
noun
- a limited period of time
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- One whose employment has been terminated
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- Relations among people.
verb
adj
noun
- An interval of time between events.
- (theology) A fall or apostasy.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
- a mistake resulting from inattention
- a failure to maintain a higher state
verb
- (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
- To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
- (intransitive) To become void.
- To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
- (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- for time to move forward
- drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- let slip
- end, at least for a long time
- go back to bad behavior
noun
- the time interval during which something or somebody is away
- failure to be present
- the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy
- the state of being absent
- (medicine) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
- Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
- The period of someone being away.
- Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
- A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
- Lack; deficiency; non-existence.
- (fencing) Lack of contact between blades.
noun
- time without end
- (countable, mathematics) A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.
- (countable, uncountable) The symbol ∞.
- (countable, topology, mathematical analysis) An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.
- (uncountable) endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.
- (uncountable) A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.
noun
- a definite length of time marked off by two instants
- the difference in pitch between two notes
- the distance between things
- a set containing all points (or all real numbers) between two given endpoints
- (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.
- (chiefly British and India) An intermission.
- A period of time.
- (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
- (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
- A distance in space.
- (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play.
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- smallest American sandpiper
- an individual's prescribed share of work
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).
- (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
verb
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- subsist on a meager allowance
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
adj
verb
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
noun
- the point in time at which something ends
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- either extremity of something that has length
- a final state
- a final part or section
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
verb
- occur at a specified time or place
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- slope downward
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- lose one's chastity
- yield to temptation or sin
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- lose an upright position suddenly
- move in a specified direction
- begin vigorously
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be due
- be inherited by
- come out; issue
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- lose office or power
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- come under, be classified or included
- come into the possession of
- fall or flow in a certain way
- come as if by falling
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- fall from clouds
- be captured
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- be cast down
- to be given by right or inheritance
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- go as if by falling
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To come down, to drop or descend.
- (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become (chiefly used with negative states).
- (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To be brought to the ground.
- (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To visit; to go to a place.
noun
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a movement downward
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- a downward slope or bend
- (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- That which falls or cascades.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
- (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The height of that which falls or cascades.
- (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
intj
verb
- occur between other event or between certain points of time
- get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
- be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events
- (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
- (law) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
- (ambitransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
- (intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action. [with in]
- (intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
adv
prep_phrase
noun
adv
- within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time
- despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons
- up to the present time
- used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
- used after a superlative
- In addition.
- (after 'have' and certain copulative verbs, followed by an infinitive) Not as of the time referenced.
- At some future time; eventually.
- In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.
- In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.
- (degree) Even.
conj
noun
verb
adv
- for an extended time or at a distant time
- for an extended distance
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- A long time (see usage notes).
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
adj
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- good at remembering
- involving substantial risk
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- Having great duration.
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
verb
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
adv
noun
- work done in addition to regular working hours
- playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie
- (uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
- (sports, countable, US) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.
- (uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.
- A period of time longer than scheduled.
prep_phrase
verb
adv
- prior to a specified or implied time
- So soon.
- Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
- (Singapore, Singlish) Marks a change in state, more or less in the same manner as the inchoative aspect.
- (US, Canada) An intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation.
- (Singapore, Singlish) Indicates the completion of an action (whether past or hypothetical), or more generally, perfective aspect.
adv
adj
noun
adj
- indefinite in time or position
- (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
- being a single entity made by combining separate components
- eminent beyond or above comparison
- of the same kind or quality
- used of a single unit or thing; not two or more
- having the indivisible character of a unit
- Sole, only.
- Of a period of time, being particular.
- In agreement.
- Whole, entire.
- Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
- The same.
noun
- a single person or thing
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).
- (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
- (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
- (US) A one-dollar bill.
- One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- A joke or amusing anecdote.
- (Internet slang, leetspeak, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !, used to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- The digit or figure 1.
- (followed by for) A person with a tendency to do something.
- (mathematics) The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
- An alcoholic drink, especially a pint or can of beer.
det
num
- (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
- (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
- (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
- The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
particle
- A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the likelihood of something occurring, as a characteristic of something else.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
pron
- (Singlish, less common) Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
- (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
- (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).
- (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.
- (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
verb
adj
- of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date
- unaffected by time
- having no known beginning and presumably no end
- not bearing a date
- Without a start; immemorial
- Having no date—a meeting with a lover or potential lover.
- Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.
- Out of one's head; deranged.
- (British, dialect, slang) Thick-headed.
- Timeless; immortal
adj
- Without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite.
- (linguistics) Designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things.
- (mathematics) Being an integral without specified limits.
- Undecided or uncertain.
- Vague or unclear.
- vague or not clearly defined or stated
- not decided or not known
noun
adj
- being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
- having died recently
- of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages
- (used especially of persons) of the immediate past
- of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
- after the expected or usual time; delayed
- at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
- Near the end of a period of time.
- (not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)
- Not having had an expected menstrual period.
- (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period.
- Specifically, near the end of the day.
- Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.
- Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
- Levied as a surcharge on a payment which has not arrived by a specified deadline.
- (astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.
adv
noun
adj
noun
adv
- for an extended time or at a distant time
- for an extended distance
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- A long time (see usage notes).
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
adj
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- good at remembering
- involving substantial risk
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- Having great duration.
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
verb
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.