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adj
- having an open chain structure
- not cyclic; especially having parts arranged in spirals rather than whorls
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) Not cyclic; having an open chain structure.
- (graph theory, of a graph) Containing no cycles.
- (botany) Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle.
noun
- a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
- the stalk of a stamen
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
- (physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
- (3D printing) A spool of plastic used as a material for 3D-printed objects.
- Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
- (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
- (botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
- A fine thread or wire.
noun
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- a connecting shape
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- (Sussex) A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- (surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
- (engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
- (kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- (broadcasting) An introductory cue.
- Abbreviation of hyperlink.
- (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
- (figurative) An individual person or element in a system
- (in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
- a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the means of connection between things linked in series
- (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
- an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
- the state of being connected
- a channel for communication between groups
- a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
verb
- (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
- (Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
- (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).
- (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
- (transitive, Internet) To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- (intransitive, Internet, of a web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- (transitive, slang) To meet with (someone).
- (transitive) To connect (two or more things).
- make a logical or causal connection
- be or become joined or united or linked
- link with or as with a yoke
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
verb
noun
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
- the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
- (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- The overall form or organization of something.
- (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- A set of rules defining behaviour.
- (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
adj
- Having multiple points of attachment in a lattice-like pattern.
- Compartmentalized; separated into isolated compartments or components.
- Arranged in a grid pattern; Interleaved.
- Having a texture with regular indentations similar to that of an egg carton or regular holes in a grid pattern; corrugated or latticed.
adv
verb
noun
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- tubing that is wound in a spiral
- a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine
- reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit
- a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
- (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
- (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
- Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
- (informal, slang) A wad of cash.
- Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
- A cylinder of clay.
verb
- wind around something in coils or loops
- make without a potter's wheel
- to wind or move in a spiral course
- To wind cylindrically or spirally.
- To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
- To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
- To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
noun
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
- An upside down midair 360° spin in playboating.
- (architecture) A small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital.
- (mathematics) A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular to the axis is constant; the three-dimensional curve seen in a screw or a spiral staircase.
- (anatomy) The incurved rim of the external ear.
verb
noun
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
- flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
- a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
- a continuously accelerating change in the economy
- a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
- (geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
- (informal) A helix.
- A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
- (rail transport) A section of track that forms a circle and crosses over itself, used for gaining height in mountainous territory.
adj
verb
noun
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
- (architecture) The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.
- (engineering) The casing in a centrifugal pump, whose shape is somewhat similar to architectural volutes.
- (zoology) The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
- (art) A spiral or scroll form.
- (music) A scroll-shaped carving at the tuning head of a stringed musical instrument, similar to architectural volutes.
- (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.
adj
noun
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl
- A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle.
- (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
- (botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
- Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.
- (anatomy) Any volution, as for example in the human ear or fingerprint.
verb
noun
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- (anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- (chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
- (US, slang) The penis.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- (originally an idiolectic sense) A thing.
- (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- (slang, with the definite article) Prison, jail, or lockup.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
- a disreputable place of entertainment
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- junction by which parts or objects are joined together
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
- fit as if by joints
- provide with a joint
- separate (meat) at the joint
- fasten with a joint
noun
- a layered structure
- bonding thin sheets together
- The process of laminating, joining together thin layers.
- A layer of something that is laminated.
- (geology) A small scale sequence of fine layers that occurs in sedimentary rocks.
- (topology) A foliation of a closed subset of a manifold by subspaces of one dimension less.
- Something made by laminating.
noun
- a connecting shape
- a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
- shifting from one form of transportation to another
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
- (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship)
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
- the state of being connected
- an instrumentality that connects
- a supplier (especially of narcotics)
- An established communications or transportation link.
- A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
- Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
- (mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
- (slang) A drug dealer.
- (uncountable) The act of connecting.
- A kinship relationship between people.
- The point at which two or more things are connected.
- A person related to oneself, through either family or business.
- (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
- Sexual intercourse.
- (religion) A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
noun
- a connecting shape
- a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
- shifting from one form of transportation to another
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
- an instrumentality that connects
- (Methodism) A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences (US spelling: connection).
- (British) Uncommon spelling of connection.
- (historical) The inter-relationship of prayer groups or religious societies under the oversight of an itinerant preacher who is assisted by the local preachers attached to each society.
noun
- A unifying structure.
- (computing) A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
- The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
- Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
- The structure and design of a system or product.
- (computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
- Any particular style of building design.
- the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
- the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings
- (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software
- an architectural product or work
adj
noun
noun
- an encircling or ringlike structure
- a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
- a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
- The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
- A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
- A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
verb
noun
- A cohesive strand of something.
- (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.
- (nautical) Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
- (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
- (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
- (with "the") Death by hanging.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a rope.
- (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
- (jewelry) A necklace of at least one meter in length.
- (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
- (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.
- (in the plural) The small intestines.
- (countable) An individual length of such material.
- (slang) Rohypnol.
- (baseball) A hard line drive.
- street names for flunitrazepam
- a strong line
verb
- (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- (transitive) To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.
- (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
- (Internet slang, originally incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
- (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
- (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
- catch with a lasso
- fasten with a rope
adj
- catenary; like a chain
- (ring theory) Having the property that every ascending chain of prime ideals eventually stabilizes, meaning that there is a finite length for the chains of prime ideals.
- (geometry) Shaped like a catenary; following the curve made by a chain or rope when suspended from both ends.
noun
- A vertical component of a structure.
- A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
- (marketing) A vertical market.
- An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
- (politics) A command structure for exertion of political power.
- A vertex or zenith.
- something that is oriented vertically
- a vertical structural member as a post or stake
adj
- In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
- Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
- (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
- (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
- (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.
- In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
- at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
- of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group)
- upright in position or posture
- relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution
noun
- The arising of emergent structure in complex systems.
- (botany) An outgrowth from the surface, such as a prickle or wart, differing from hairs in arising from more than the superficial cells, and from spines in arising from a few layers only.
- The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.
- the gradual beginning or coming forth
- the becoming visible
- the act of emerging
- the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent
noun
- The structural design of a complex system.
- (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.
- (biology, medicine) An organism or species that is used to study an aspect of physiology or pathophysiology or a particular disease; often, a nonhuman one used to approximate processes in humans.
- A style, type, or design.
- A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
- Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
- (logic) An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
- A representation of a physical object.
- (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
- A person, usually attractive, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.
- A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.
- A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
- something to be imitated
- someone worthy of imitation
- a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
- the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
- representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
- a representative form or pattern
- a type of product
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To work as a model in art or fashion.
- (transitive) To devise a model of (some original), especially to better understand or forecast the original.
- (intransitive) To make a model or models.
- (transitive) To make a miniature model of.
- (transitive) To create from a substance such as clay.
- (transitive) To display an item on one's body for others to see the potential effect on their own bodies, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.
- display (clothes) as a mannequin
- form in clay, wax, etc
- create a representation or simulation of
- construct a model in the likeness of
- plan or create according to a model or models
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
noun
- a structure supporting or containing something
- an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently
- (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
- a single drawing in a comic strip
- a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
- a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
- one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
- (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
- (mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
- A piece of photographic film containing an image.
- A context for understanding or interpretation.
- (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
- (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
- (electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.
- (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
- (baseball, slang) An inning.
- (crime) A conspiracy to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- (operating systems) Clipping of page frame or memory frame.
- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
- (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
- A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.
- (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
- Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
- (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- (bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
verb
- construct by fitting or uniting parts together
- formulate in a particular style or language
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- make up plans or basic details for
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- enclose in a frame, as of a picture
- (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
- (transitive) To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
- (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
- (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
- (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
- (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
- (transitive, criminology) Conspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
- (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
noun
- a structure supporting or containing something
- the underlying structure
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- (software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- (figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.
- (grammar) An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.
- (literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
noun
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- an association of criminals
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a toroidal shape
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
verb
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
adj
- (of a topological space) In which any ascending chain of open subsets eventually becomes constant.
- (algebraic geometry, of a scheme) admitting a finite covering by open affine subsets operatorname SpecA_i, where each A_i is a noetherian ring;
- (of a module) In which any ascending chain of submodules eventually becomes constant.
- (mathematics, of a binary relation on a set) Such that the converse relation is well-founded (on that set).
- (of a group) In which any ascending chain of subgroups eventually becomes constant.
- (of a ring) In which any ascending chain of ideals eventually becomes constant.
noun
- the act of linking together as in a series or chain
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
- the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc
- (programming) A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.
- (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
- (programming) The operation of joining multiple character strings.
- (countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
adj
- (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- (chiefly of animals) Docile or tranquil towards humans.
- (chiefly of animals) Accustomed to human contact.
- (figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- Not exciting.
- flat and uninspiring
- brought from wildness into a domesticated state
- very docile
- very restrained or quiet
verb
- (transitive) To take control of something that is unruly.
- (transitive) To make gentle or meek.
- (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
- (transitive) To make submissive or docile.
- (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
- make less strong or intense; soften
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- correct by punishment or discipline
noun
- the underlying structure
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
- (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- (figurative) The framework underlying a structure.
- (archaeology) The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
- (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- The texture of a cloth.
- The physical material of a building.
verb
noun
- the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component
- (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated
- a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane
- an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop
- anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself)
- an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan)
- a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied
- a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates
- the basic pattern of the human fingerprint
- fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
- (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
- A complete circuit for an electric current.
- (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- The opening so formed.
- (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
- (transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
- (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
- A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
- (cricket) The curved path of the ball bowled by a spin bowler.
- (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
- A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- Alternative form of loup (“mass of iron”).
- (rail transport) A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
- (rail transport) A passing loop.
- A ring road or beltway.
- A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
verb
- wind around something in coils or loops
- fasten or join with a loop
- make a loop in
- fly loops, perform a loop
- move in loops
- (intransitive) To move in a loop.
- (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- To place in a loop.
- (transitive) To play something (such as a song or video) in a loop.
- (transitive) To form something into a loop.
- (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- (education, ambitransitive) To have the teacher progress through multiple school years with the same students.
- (intransitive) To form a loop.
- (transitive) To move something in a loop.
- (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
noun
- A chain of sheet metal links with an elongated hole through each broad end, made by doubling the first link on itself, slipping the next link through and doubling, and so on.
- An auxiliary watchchain secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch.
- (railways) A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body during a slue.
- A security chain that allows a door to be opened to see who is on the other side without allowing them to enter.
noun
- any structure that branches out from a central support
- the act of projecting out from something
- a planned undertaking
- the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
- the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
- any solid convex shape that juts out from something
- a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
- the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
- the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
- (perfumery) The distance the scent of a perfume radiates off the skin.
- (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own, including making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser.
- (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
- (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
- (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.
- (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
- The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
- A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
- (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
- The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
- (grammar) The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
- (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
- Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
verb
- connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- fasten or secure with chains
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (figurative) To obligate.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
noun
- a unit of length
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- anything that acts as a restraint
- a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a linked or connected series of objects
- (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- a series of hills or mountains
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- (algebraic topology, homological algebra, more generally) An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A series of interconnected things.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
noun
- a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
- the stalk of a stamen
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
- (physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
- (3D printing) A spool of plastic used as a material for 3D-printed objects.
- Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
- (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
- (botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
- A fine thread or wire.
noun
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- a connecting shape
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- (Sussex) A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- (surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
- (engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
- (kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- (broadcasting) An introductory cue.
- Abbreviation of hyperlink.
- (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
- (figurative) An individual person or element in a system
- (in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
- a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the means of connection between things linked in series
- (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
- an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
- the state of being connected
- a channel for communication between groups
- a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
verb
- (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
- (Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
- (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).
- (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
- (transitive, Internet) To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- (intransitive, Internet, of a web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- (transitive, slang) To meet with (someone).
- (transitive) To connect (two or more things).
- make a logical or causal connection
- be or become joined or united or linked
- link with or as with a yoke
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
noun
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- tubing that is wound in a spiral
- a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine
- reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit
- a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
- (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
- (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
- Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
- (informal, slang) A wad of cash.
- Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
- A cylinder of clay.
verb
- wind around something in coils or loops
- make without a potter's wheel
- to wind or move in a spiral course
- To wind cylindrically or spirally.
- To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
- To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
- To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
noun
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
- An upside down midair 360° spin in playboating.
- (architecture) A small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital.
- (mathematics) A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular to the axis is constant; the three-dimensional curve seen in a screw or a spiral staircase.
- (anatomy) The incurved rim of the external ear.
verb
noun
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
- flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
- a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
- a continuously accelerating change in the economy
- a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
- (geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
- (informal) A helix.
- A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
- (rail transport) A section of track that forms a circle and crosses over itself, used for gaining height in mountainous territory.
adj
verb
noun
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
- (architecture) The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.
- (engineering) The casing in a centrifugal pump, whose shape is somewhat similar to architectural volutes.
- (zoology) The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
- (art) A spiral or scroll form.
- (music) A scroll-shaped carving at the tuning head of a stringed musical instrument, similar to architectural volutes.
- (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.
adj
noun
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl
- A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle.
- (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
- (botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
- Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.
- (anatomy) Any volution, as for example in the human ear or fingerprint.
verb
noun
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- (anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- (chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
- (US, slang) The penis.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- (originally an idiolectic sense) A thing.
- (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- (slang, with the definite article) Prison, jail, or lockup.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
- a disreputable place of entertainment
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- junction by which parts or objects are joined together
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
- fit as if by joints
- provide with a joint
- separate (meat) at the joint
- fasten with a joint
noun
- a layered structure
- bonding thin sheets together
- The process of laminating, joining together thin layers.
- A layer of something that is laminated.
- (geology) A small scale sequence of fine layers that occurs in sedimentary rocks.
- (topology) A foliation of a closed subset of a manifold by subspaces of one dimension less.
- Something made by laminating.
noun
- a connecting shape
- a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
- shifting from one form of transportation to another
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
- (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship)
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
- the state of being connected
- an instrumentality that connects
- a supplier (especially of narcotics)
- An established communications or transportation link.
- A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
- Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
- (mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
- (slang) A drug dealer.
- (uncountable) The act of connecting.
- A kinship relationship between people.
- The point at which two or more things are connected.
- A person related to oneself, through either family or business.
- (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
- Sexual intercourse.
- (religion) A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
noun
- a connecting shape
- a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
- shifting from one form of transportation to another
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
- an instrumentality that connects
- (Methodism) A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences (US spelling: connection).
- (British) Uncommon spelling of connection.
- (historical) The inter-relationship of prayer groups or religious societies under the oversight of an itinerant preacher who is assisted by the local preachers attached to each society.
noun
- A unifying structure.
- (computing) A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
- The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
- Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
- The structure and design of a system or product.
- (computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
- Any particular style of building design.
- the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
- the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings
- (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software
- an architectural product or work
noun
- an encircling or ringlike structure
- a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
- a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
- The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
- A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
- A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
verb
noun
- A cohesive strand of something.
- (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.
- (nautical) Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
- (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
- (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
- (with "the") Death by hanging.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a rope.
- (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
- (jewelry) A necklace of at least one meter in length.
- (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
- (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.
- (in the plural) The small intestines.
- (countable) An individual length of such material.
- (slang) Rohypnol.
- (baseball) A hard line drive.
- street names for flunitrazepam
- a strong line
verb
- (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- (transitive) To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.
- (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
- (Internet slang, originally incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
- (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
- (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
- catch with a lasso
- fasten with a rope
noun
- A vertical component of a structure.
- A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
- (marketing) A vertical market.
- An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
- (politics) A command structure for exertion of political power.
- A vertex or zenith.
- something that is oriented vertically
- a vertical structural member as a post or stake
adj
- In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
- Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
- (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
- (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
- (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.
- In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
- at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
- of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group)
- upright in position or posture
- relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution
noun
- The arising of emergent structure in complex systems.
- (botany) An outgrowth from the surface, such as a prickle or wart, differing from hairs in arising from more than the superficial cells, and from spines in arising from a few layers only.
- The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.
- the gradual beginning or coming forth
- the becoming visible
- the act of emerging
- the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent
noun
- The structural design of a complex system.
- (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.
- (biology, medicine) An organism or species that is used to study an aspect of physiology or pathophysiology or a particular disease; often, a nonhuman one used to approximate processes in humans.
- A style, type, or design.
- A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
- Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
- (logic) An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
- A representation of a physical object.
- (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
- A person, usually attractive, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.
- A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.
- A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
- something to be imitated
- someone worthy of imitation
- a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
- the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
- representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
- a representative form or pattern
- a type of product
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To work as a model in art or fashion.
- (transitive) To devise a model of (some original), especially to better understand or forecast the original.
- (intransitive) To make a model or models.
- (transitive) To make a miniature model of.
- (transitive) To create from a substance such as clay.
- (transitive) To display an item on one's body for others to see the potential effect on their own bodies, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.
- display (clothes) as a mannequin
- form in clay, wax, etc
- create a representation or simulation of
- construct a model in the likeness of
- plan or create according to a model or models
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
noun
- a structure supporting or containing something
- an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently
- (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
- a single drawing in a comic strip
- a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
- a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
- one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
- (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
- (mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
- A piece of photographic film containing an image.
- A context for understanding or interpretation.
- (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
- (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
- (electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.
- (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
- (baseball, slang) An inning.
- (crime) A conspiracy to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- (operating systems) Clipping of page frame or memory frame.
- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
- (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
- A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.
- (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
- Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
- (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- (bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
verb
- construct by fitting or uniting parts together
- formulate in a particular style or language
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- make up plans or basic details for
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- enclose in a frame, as of a picture
- (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
- (transitive) To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
- (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
- (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
- (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
- (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
- (transitive, criminology) Conspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
- (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
noun
- a structure supporting or containing something
- the underlying structure
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- (software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- (figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.
- (grammar) An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.
- (literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
noun
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- an association of criminals
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a toroidal shape
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
verb
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
noun
- the act of linking together as in a series or chain
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
- the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc
- (programming) A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.
- (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
- (programming) The operation of joining multiple character strings.
- (countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
noun
- the underlying structure
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
- (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- (figurative) The framework underlying a structure.
- (archaeology) The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
- (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- The texture of a cloth.
- The physical material of a building.
verb
noun
- the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component
- (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated
- a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane
- an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop
- anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself)
- an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan)
- a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied
- a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates
- the basic pattern of the human fingerprint
- fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
- (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
- A complete circuit for an electric current.
- (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- The opening so formed.
- (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
- (transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
- (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
- A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
- (cricket) The curved path of the ball bowled by a spin bowler.
- (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
- A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- Alternative form of loup (“mass of iron”).
- (rail transport) A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
- (rail transport) A passing loop.
- A ring road or beltway.
- A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
verb
- wind around something in coils or loops
- fasten or join with a loop
- make a loop in
- fly loops, perform a loop
- move in loops
- (intransitive) To move in a loop.
- (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- To place in a loop.
- (transitive) To play something (such as a song or video) in a loop.
- (transitive) To form something into a loop.
- (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- (education, ambitransitive) To have the teacher progress through multiple school years with the same students.
- (intransitive) To form a loop.
- (transitive) To move something in a loop.
- (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
noun
- A chain of sheet metal links with an elongated hole through each broad end, made by doubling the first link on itself, slipping the next link through and doubling, and so on.
- An auxiliary watchchain secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch.
- (railways) A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body during a slue.
- A security chain that allows a door to be opened to see who is on the other side without allowing them to enter.
noun
- any structure that branches out from a central support
- the act of projecting out from something
- a planned undertaking
- the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
- the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
- any solid convex shape that juts out from something
- a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
- the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
- the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
- (perfumery) The distance the scent of a perfume radiates off the skin.
- (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own, including making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser.
- (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
- (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
- (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.
- (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
- The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
- A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
- (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
- The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
- (grammar) The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
- (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
- Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
verb
noun
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
- the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
- (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- The overall form or organization of something.
- (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- A set of rules defining behaviour.
- (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
verb
- connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- fasten or secure with chains
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (figurative) To obligate.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
noun
- a unit of length
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- anything that acts as a restraint
- a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a linked or connected series of objects
- (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- a series of hills or mountains
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- (algebraic topology, homological algebra, more generally) An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A series of interconnected things.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
adj
- having an open chain structure
- not cyclic; especially having parts arranged in spirals rather than whorls
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) Not cyclic; having an open chain structure.
- (graph theory, of a graph) Containing no cycles.
- (botany) Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle.
adj
- Having multiple points of attachment in a lattice-like pattern.
- Compartmentalized; separated into isolated compartments or components.
- Arranged in a grid pattern; Interleaved.
- Having a texture with regular indentations similar to that of an egg carton or regular holes in a grid pattern; corrugated or latticed.
adv
verb
adj
noun
adj
- catenary; like a chain
- (ring theory) Having the property that every ascending chain of prime ideals eventually stabilizes, meaning that there is a finite length for the chains of prime ideals.
- (geometry) Shaped like a catenary; following the curve made by a chain or rope when suspended from both ends.
adj
- (of a topological space) In which any ascending chain of open subsets eventually becomes constant.
- (algebraic geometry, of a scheme) admitting a finite covering by open affine subsets operatorname SpecA_i, where each A_i is a noetherian ring;
- (of a module) In which any ascending chain of submodules eventually becomes constant.
- (mathematics, of a binary relation on a set) Such that the converse relation is well-founded (on that set).
- (of a group) In which any ascending chain of subgroups eventually becomes constant.
- (of a ring) In which any ascending chain of ideals eventually becomes constant.
adj
- (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- (chiefly of animals) Docile or tranquil towards humans.
- (chiefly of animals) Accustomed to human contact.
- (figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- Not exciting.
- flat and uninspiring
- brought from wildness into a domesticated state
- very docile
- very restrained or quiet
verb
- (transitive) To take control of something that is unruly.
- (transitive) To make gentle or meek.
- (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
- (transitive) To make submissive or docile.
- (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
- make less strong or intense; soften
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- correct by punishment or discipline