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adv
- to a later time
- to a more central or a more northerly place
- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
- to a higher intensity
- nearer to the speaker
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
- (figuratively) To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- (rail transport) Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- To one's possession or consideration.
- To the north (as north is at the top of typical maps).
- To an upright or erect position.
- (sailing) Against the wind or current.
- (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
- Towards the source of a river, against the direction of flow.
- To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higher.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- From one's possession or consideration.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- (US, bartending) Without additional ice.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
adj
- out of bed
- (used of computers) operating properly
- extending or moving toward a higher place
- open
- getting higher or more vigorous
- being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
- used up
- (usually followed by ‘on’ or ‘for’) in readiness
- (US, bartending) Chilled and served without ice; (often specifically) shaken with ice and then strained into a coupe for serving, leaving the ice behind.
- Awake and out of bed.
- (horse-racing) Riding the horse; mounted.
- (of the sun or moon) Above the horizon, in the sky.
- (computing) Functional; working.
- (usually in the phrase up for) Willing; ready.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Next in a sequence.
- Facing upwards.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Raised; lifted.
- Aloft.
- (slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned
- In a good mood.
- (of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
- Well-informed; current.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Built, constructed.
- (slang) Erect.
- On or at a physically higher level.
- (predicative only) Finished, to an end
- (by extension) Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- (predicative only) Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Standing; upright.
verb
- raise
- (computing, slang, transitive) To upload.
- (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
- (intransitive, often in combination with another verb) To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
- (transitive, colloquial) To increase the level or amount of.
- (transitive, poetic or in certain phrases) To physically raise or lift.
noun
prep
- (vulgar slang) Of a person: having sex with.
- Toward the top of.
- From south to north of.
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
adv
adj
adv
- To a later time.
- To an earlier time.
- At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving.
- So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior.
- In or for the future.
- At an earlier time; beforehand; in advance.
- to a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced either toward the present or toward the future)
- ahead of time; in anticipation
- toward the future; forward in time
- at or in the front
- leading or ahead in a competition
- to a more advanced or advantageous position
- in a forward direction
adj
verb
- be later in time
- to bring something about at a later time than
- come after in time, as a result
- follow with the eyes or the mind
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- be the successor (of)
- to be the product or result
- keep under surveillance
- be next
- adhere to or practice
- keep to
- follow in or as if in pursuit
- come as a logical consequence; follow logically
- act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
- perform an accompaniment to
- keep informed
- to subscribe to someone's updates on social media
- to travel behind, go after, come after
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- imitate in behavior; take as a model
- to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media
- travel along a certain course
- grasp the meaning
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of
- behave in accordance or in agreement with
- (social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
- (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
- (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
- (ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
- (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
- (ambitransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.
- (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
- (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
- (ambitransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
noun
verb
noun
adv
adj
noun
- An anonymous person, traditionally especially a published author but now especially an internet rando.
- A work with an unknown author.
- A work without a title.
- (Internet) An anonymous poster (“person who contributes a note, message, etc”). A participant in an online site, such as a forum or an imageboard, without an account, or who posts without identifying themselves, or hidden behind a pseudonym.
adv
- To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.
- In the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.
- In the usual order or sequence.
- Into the future.
- So that front and back are in the usual orientation.
- At, near or towards the front of something.
- forward in time or order or degree
- near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
- at or to or toward the front; forward
- toward the future; forward in time
- in a forward direction
adj
- Situated toward or at the front of something.
- (figuratively) Moving in the desired direction of progress.
- Having the usual order or sequence.
- Prominent, emphasized (or, in combinations, emphasizing).
- Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
- Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
- (of troops, guns etc.) Situated toward or near the enemy lines.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.
- moving forward
- at or near or directed toward the front
- used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty
- of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
noun
- (rugby) One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).
- (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
- (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- (finance) A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
- (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
- Misspelling of foreword (“preface or introduction”).
- (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
- the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey
- a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team
verb
- (transitive) To advance, promote.
- (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.
- (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
- (intransitive, Caribbean) To arrive, come.
- send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit
adv
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
adj
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
noun
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- A ferryboat.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
verb
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
prep
- Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
- In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
- Subsequently to and considering.
- (Ireland, Newfoundland, usually preceded by a form of be, followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity.
- (in reduplicative expressions) Repeatedly, seemingly in a sequence without end.
- Subsequently to and in spite of.
- In pursuit of, seeking.
- Behind.
- Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
- Subsequently to and as a result of.
- (often with verbs related to cleaning or tidying) Subsequently to the actions of (someone), in order to remedy a situation.
- Below, often next below, in importance or rank.
adv
adj
conj
noun
verb
- hold back to a later time
- yield to another's wish or opinion
- (ambitransitive) To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.
- (especially more common, historically) to postpone induction into military service.
- (transitive) To delay or postpone.
- To render, to offer.
- (intransitive) To delay, to wait.
- (American football) After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
verb
- hold back to a later time
- intimidate somebody (with a threat)
- hold over goods to be sold for the next season
- continue a term of office past the normal period of time
- keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time
- (transitive, sometimes idiomatic) (Of a resource) To support or sustain someone for a limited period.
- (intransitive) To remain in office, possession, residency etc., beyond a certain date.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To save, delay.
- (transitive) To be in a position to harm (someone); to have damaging information on (someone).
noun
verb
- hold back to a later time
- cause to feel intense dislike or distaste
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- take away the enthusiasm of
- cause to feel embarrassment
- (transitive) To cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing).
- (transitive) To distract; to disturb the concentration of.
- (transitive) To emit; to give off (an odor, smoke, etc.).
- (transitive) To delay (a task, event, etc.).
- (transitive) To postpone, especially through procrastination.
adj
verb
- hold back to a later time
- communicate successfully
- (professional wrestling slang) To increase the popularity or prove the legitimacy of another wrestler, usually by losing to them.
- To state or explain (a concept) in a clear, understandable manner.
- (rugby) To make a decisive pass to a teammate so they can score a try.
- To portray or present.
verb
- hold back to a later time
- diminish or abate
- send (money) in payment
- forgive
- release from (claims, debts, or taxes)
- make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
- refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
- (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
- (transitive) To restore or replace.
- (transitive) To postpone.
- (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
- (transitive) To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
- (transitive) To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
- (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
noun
- the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- (law) A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
- (chiefly British) Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
verb
- hold back to a later time
- slow down the progress of; hinder
- cost a certain amount
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cost money.
- To reverse, go backwards.
- (transitive) To remove from or allow distance.
- (transitive) To delay or obstruct.
- (transitive) To install or position behind a boundary or surface, or in a recess.
verb
- hold back to a later time
- place on a shelf
- (slang) To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.
- (transitive, British, dialectal) To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.
- To postpone or put aside, or entirely cease dealing with (a matter for discussion, a project, etc.).
- To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.
- (Wales, slang) To have sex with (someone).
- To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf.
- Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope.
- (also reflexive) To remove (someone) from active service.
verb
- hold back to a later time
- arrange or enter in tabular form
- To put on a table.
- (metonymic) To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
- (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
- (poker, colloquial) To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
- To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
- (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
- (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
noun
- a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs
- flat tableland with steep edges
- food or meals in general
- a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it
- a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
- a set of data arranged in rows and columns
- A supply of food or entertainment.
- A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
- A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
- (waitstaff, metonymic) A group of diners at a given table or tables.
- A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
- (metonymic) A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
- (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
- (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
- The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
- (poker, metonymic) The lineup of players at a given table.
- (roleplaying games, metonymic) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
- (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- A service of Holy Communion.
- (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
adv
- To a future time.
- Beyond or in excess of what is correct or expected.
- Up one side of something, across, and then down the other side.
- So as to reverse up/down orientation, or otherwise change orientation by rotating.
- From an upright position to a horizontal one.
- On top of something, or so as to cover something.
- (often in compounds) To a high or excessive degree; overly; see also over-.
- Overnight (throughout the night).
- Across from one side of something to the other.
- Expressing figurative movement from one position or state across to another.
- Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
- Indicating a direction or location away from the speaker, usually roughly horizontally or visualised as such.
- So as to pass above.
- (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again.
- So as to fold towards or onto itself.
- From one position or location to another, horizontally or approximately so, or along a route visualised as "across".
- See also individual entries for phrasal verbs: go over, hand over, run over, take over, win over, etc.
- So as to reverse or exchange position(s).
- Used for rhetorical effect to reinforce that something was done the stated number of times.
- Across something, such as an edge, and then downwards.
- beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position
- at or to a point across intervening space etc.
- throughout a period of time
- over the entire area
- throughout an area
adj
- (professional wrestling slang) Of a wrestler: generating a reaction from fans.
- (informal) Visiting one's home or other location.
- (botany) Of a flower: wilting or withering.
- Having surmounted an obstacle.
- Surplus to requirements.
- Finished; ended; concluded.
- (informal, of an ongoing situation) Hopeless; irrecoverable.
- (informal) Having an excess in a particular respect.
- having come or been brought to a conclusion
intj
noun
- (gambling) A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such a points scored in a game, will be above a certain stated value.
- (informal) Something having an excess of a particular property.
- Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
- (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.
- (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch
prep
- While doing an activity involving (something), especially while consuming.
- (informal, for 'over at/in/on') At or near (a location seen as 'across' from the speaker's location).
- Indicating relative status, authority, or power
- Across, from one side to the other.
- Expressing causation: due to, as the result of.
- Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding.
- To a greater degree than.
- On the other side of.
- From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.
- In a position of having overcome (a problem or issue); past; finished with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two.
- Through or around all the parts of.
- Across (something) and then downwards.
- (mathematics) Divided by.
- Concerning or regarding.
- Above; higher than; further up than.
- (poker) Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.
- (music, more common in speech) Separates the primary chord of a slash chord from the bass note
- During or throughout (a time period).
- More than (a given value, amount, limit etc.); beyond; past; exceeding.
- On top of; in such a way as to cover.
- (in certain collocations) As compared to.
- Across, so as to pass above.
- Through or via (a particular transmission medium).
adv
noun
adj
- Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
- coming at a subsequent time or stage
- At some time in the future.
- Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)
- comparative form of late: more late
- at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
adv
- Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
- At some unspecified time in the future.
- comparative form of late: more late
- (Manglish, Singlish) What if (something problematic or unanticipated happens); if not (something undesirable will happen).
- happening at a time subsequent to a reference time
- at some eventual time in the future
- comparative of the adverb ‘late’
intj
noun
- a later concluding time period
- a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good evening
- the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
- the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way
- A party or gathering held in the evening.
- The time of day between afternoon and night.
- The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.
- (figuratively) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
verb
verb
noun
verb
- be earlier in time; go back further
- furnish with a preface or introduction
- come before
- be the predecessor of
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- (transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
- (transitive) To go before, go in front of.
- (transitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
noun
verb
- be earlier in time; go back further
- come before
- establish something as being earlier relative to something else
- prey on or hunt for
- (transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
- To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
- (ambitransitive) To prey upon something.
noun
adj
- coming at a subsequent time or stage
- located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure
- (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
- (medicine) Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
- (formal) Following in order or in time.
noun
adj
- coming at a subsequent time or stage
- beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote
- lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
- Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.
- Situated beyond, or on the farther side.
- Beyond what is obvious or evident.
prep
- After in time.
- (sometimes regarded as nonstandard, US, informal) Following, subsequent to; as a result or consequence of; because of.
- (figuratively) Concealed by (something serving as a facade or disguise).
- (figuratively) In the past, from the viewpoint of.
- At or to the back or far side of.
- Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.
- Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of.
- After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to.
- In support of.
- After in physical progress or distance.
adj
adv
- Backward in time or order of succession; past.
- Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.
- In a rearward direction.
- So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.
- At or in the rear or back part of something.
- in or into an inferior position
- in debt
- remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from
- showing a time that is earlier than the actual time
- in or to or toward the rear
noun
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The catcher.
- In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
- (Australian rules football) A one-point score.
- The rear, back-end.
- (informal) The buttocks, bottom, butt.
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
prefix
- After in time.
- (biology) Relating to epigenetics.
- Upon, atop, directly on top of in terms of position.
- Front or anterior in position.
- Entirety, a system being referred to as a whole.
- Mapping onto, passing along, resolving to.
- Upwards in direction or growth.
- Overlapping in position.
- Outside of in position.
- Secondary: a consequence, by-product, additional, or lesser version.
- Located on the surface.
- (chemistry) Denotes an epimeric form.
- (biology) Epidemiology
- Covering: the root entity is covered.
- (zoology) Epibiotic: an organism that lives on another organism.
- Near in position.
- Similar, in the same form of, resembling.
- Surrounding in position: the edges of the root entity.
- Top: a part that is positioned at the uppermost of multiple levels.
- Above in location or position.
- Outward in direction or projection.
- More, above a usual quantity, additional in quantity.
- A part or segment that is located on the upper part of an object.
- A part or location that is outer, particularly an outer layer.
- Outranked, above in rank.
- Beyond, meta, transcending.
- Shallow in depth.
adv
prep
conj
noun
adj
- earlier in time
- of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body
- (anatomy) Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
- (botany) (of a part of a flower or leaf) Situated further away from the mainstem.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with an obstruction located in front of the palato-alveolar region of the mouth, e.g. b, p, d, t.
- (formal) Coming before or earlier in time or development, prior to, preceding.
noun
adj
- earlier in time
- More important or significant.
- (Bayesian statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
- Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
noun
- the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
- An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
- The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
- (by extension) In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
- The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
- (Canada, US, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.
- The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
- In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
- The head friar of a house of friars.
- A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
- (Bayesian statistics) A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
adv
prep
adv
noun
adv
- Toward or into the past.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
- in or to or toward a past time
adj
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
- (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Late or behindhand.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Retarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
- (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- retarded in intellectual development
- (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
- having made less than normal progress
- directed or facing toward the back or rear
noun
noun
- A point in time.
- One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
- The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
- A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The anus.
- A pre-arranged meeting.
- (rare) An assigned end; a conclusion.
- A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
- The date palm.
- The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
- a participant in a date
- a meeting arranged in advance
- sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
- a particular day specified as the time something happens
- the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
- the specified day of the month
- the present
verb
- (ambitransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
- (transitive) To determine the age of something.
- (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
- (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
- (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
- (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
- (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- go on a date with
- stamp with a date
- assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
- provide with a dateline; mark with a date
adj
- between an earlier and a later period of time
- being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
- of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
- equally distant from the extremes
- Central.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.
- Located in the middle; in between.
noun
- an intermediate part or section
- the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
- the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- A centre, midpoint.
- The part between the beginning and the end.
- (politics) the center of the political spectrum.
- (grammar) The middle voice.
- (cricket) The middle stump.
- The central part of a human body; the waist.
verb
noun
- a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
- a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws
- an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
- (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
- (law) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
- An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
- The previous version.
- An established habit or custom.
adj
verb
adj
- far along in time
- situated ahead or going before
- ahead of the times
- (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry
- ahead in development; complex or intricate
- comparatively late in a course of development
- farther along in physical or mental development
- at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill
- In a late stage of development or education; having greatly progressed beyond an initial stage.
- Having moved forward in time or space (e.g. advanced ignition timing).
- Involving greater complexity; more difficult, elaborate or specialized.
- At or close to the state of the art.
- (Philippines, of a clock or watch) Indicating a time ahead of the correct time.
- (phonetics) Pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract.
verb
adj
- far along in time
- at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- fully prepared or eager
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
- (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
- Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
- Ready for action or effect; prepared.
- (proscribed, used with with) Rife
- (colloquial) Ofa person, ready, willing, eager.
- Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
- (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
- Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
noun
verb
verb
- go back to something earlier
- answer back
- be restored
- even the score, in sports
- (intransitive) To return to a relationship with a former romantic partner.
- (intransitive) To retort.
- (intransitive) To return to a place.
- (intransitive) To return to a former state, usually a desirable one; to become fashionable once more.
- (intransitive) To return to one's possession, especially of memories.
verb
- go back to something earlier
- (hunting) Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
- (transitive, hunting) To call back (hounds); to recall.
- (by extension) To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.
- (figuratively) To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event).
noun
verb
- go back to something earlier
- make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
- summon to return
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- cause to be returned
- bring to mind
- cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again; to call another time.
- (transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
noun
- a bugle call that signals troops to return
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
- a call to return
- a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- the act of removing an official by petition
- (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
verb
- go back to something earlier
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- elect again
- answer back
- go back to a previous state
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- bring back to the point of departure
- give or supply
- pass down
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
noun
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- the act of going back to a prior location
- a reciprocal group action
- a coming to or returning home
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- getting something back again
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- An answer.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- The act of returning.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
verb
- come near in time
- move towards
- begin to deal with
- come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
- make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion
- (transitive) To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
- (intransitive, golf, tennis) To play an approach shot.
- (transitive, mathematical analysis) Used when defining limits, preceded by as: To become arbitrarily close to some value, be it a number, vector or infinity and have an effect on another value.
- (intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
- (ambitransitive, figuratively) Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
- (transitive) To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
- (transitive, military) To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.
- (transitive, rarely intransitive) Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
- (transitive) To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).
noun
- a way of entering or leaving
- a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
- a close approximation
- the event of one object coming closer to another
- the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
- the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- the act of drawing spatially closer to something
- a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- (also figuratively) An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
- (climbing) A path taken to reach the climbing area, for example, from a car park, road, etc.
- (also figuratively) An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
- (aviation, also attributively) The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
- (figuratively) A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).
- (golf, tennis) Ellipsis of approach shot.
- A specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.
- An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
- (bowling) The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
adv
prep
noun
- a later concluding time period
- a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good evening
- the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
- the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way
- A party or gathering held in the evening.
- The time of day between afternoon and night.
- The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.
- (figuratively) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
verb
noun
- A point in time.
- One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
- The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
- A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The anus.
- A pre-arranged meeting.
- (rare) An assigned end; a conclusion.
- A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
- The date palm.
- The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
- a participant in a date
- a meeting arranged in advance
- sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
- a particular day specified as the time something happens
- the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
- the specified day of the month
- the present
verb
- (ambitransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
- (transitive) To determine the age of something.
- (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
- (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
- (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
- (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
- (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- go on a date with
- stamp with a date
- assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
- provide with a dateline; mark with a date
noun
- a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
- a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws
- an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
- (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
- (law) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
- An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
- The previous version.
- An established habit or custom.
adj
verb
verb
- be later in time
- to bring something about at a later time than
- come after in time, as a result
- follow with the eyes or the mind
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- be the successor (of)
- to be the product or result
- keep under surveillance
- be next
- adhere to or practice
- keep to
- follow in or as if in pursuit
- come as a logical consequence; follow logically
- act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
- perform an accompaniment to
- keep informed
- to subscribe to someone's updates on social media
- to travel behind, go after, come after
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- imitate in behavior; take as a model
- to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media
- travel along a certain course
- grasp the meaning
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of
- behave in accordance or in agreement with
- (social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
- (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
- (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
- (ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
- (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
- (ambitransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.
- (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
- (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
- (ambitransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- hold back to a later time
- yield to another's wish or opinion
- (ambitransitive) To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.
- (especially more common, historically) to postpone induction into military service.
- (transitive) To delay or postpone.
- To render, to offer.
- (intransitive) To delay, to wait.
- (American football) After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
verb
- hold back to a later time
- intimidate somebody (with a threat)
- hold over goods to be sold for the next season
- continue a term of office past the normal period of time
- keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time
- (transitive, sometimes idiomatic) (Of a resource) To support or sustain someone for a limited period.
- (intransitive) To remain in office, possession, residency etc., beyond a certain date.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To save, delay.
- (transitive) To be in a position to harm (someone); to have damaging information on (someone).
noun
verb
- hold back to a later time
- cause to feel intense dislike or distaste
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- take away the enthusiasm of
- cause to feel embarrassment
- (transitive) To cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing).
- (transitive) To distract; to disturb the concentration of.
- (transitive) To emit; to give off (an odor, smoke, etc.).
- (transitive) To delay (a task, event, etc.).
- (transitive) To postpone, especially through procrastination.
adj
verb
- hold back to a later time
- communicate successfully
- (professional wrestling slang) To increase the popularity or prove the legitimacy of another wrestler, usually by losing to them.
- To state or explain (a concept) in a clear, understandable manner.
- (rugby) To make a decisive pass to a teammate so they can score a try.
- To portray or present.
verb
- hold back to a later time
- diminish or abate
- send (money) in payment
- forgive
- release from (claims, debts, or taxes)
- make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
- refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
- (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
- (transitive) To restore or replace.
- (transitive) To postpone.
- (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
- (transitive) To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
- (transitive) To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
- (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
noun
- the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- (law) A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
- (chiefly British) Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
verb
- hold back to a later time
- slow down the progress of; hinder
- cost a certain amount
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cost money.
- To reverse, go backwards.
- (transitive) To remove from or allow distance.
- (transitive) To delay or obstruct.
- (transitive) To install or position behind a boundary or surface, or in a recess.
verb
- hold back to a later time
- place on a shelf
- (slang) To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.
- (transitive, British, dialectal) To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.
- To postpone or put aside, or entirely cease dealing with (a matter for discussion, a project, etc.).
- To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.
- (Wales, slang) To have sex with (someone).
- To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf.
- Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope.
- (also reflexive) To remove (someone) from active service.
verb
- hold back to a later time
- arrange or enter in tabular form
- To put on a table.
- (metonymic) To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
- (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
- (poker, colloquial) To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
- To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
- (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
- (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
noun
- a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs
- flat tableland with steep edges
- food or meals in general
- a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it
- a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
- a set of data arranged in rows and columns
- A supply of food or entertainment.
- A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
- A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
- (waitstaff, metonymic) A group of diners at a given table or tables.
- A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
- (metonymic) A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
- (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
- (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
- The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
- (poker, metonymic) The lineup of players at a given table.
- (roleplaying games, metonymic) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
- (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- A service of Holy Communion.
- (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
verb
noun
verb
- be earlier in time; go back further
- furnish with a preface or introduction
- come before
- be the predecessor of
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- (transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
- (transitive) To go before, go in front of.
- (transitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
noun
verb
- be earlier in time; go back further
- come before
- establish something as being earlier relative to something else
- prey on or hunt for
- (transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
- To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
- (ambitransitive) To prey upon something.
noun
verb
- go back to something earlier
- answer back
- be restored
- even the score, in sports
- (intransitive) To return to a relationship with a former romantic partner.
- (intransitive) To retort.
- (intransitive) To return to a place.
- (intransitive) To return to a former state, usually a desirable one; to become fashionable once more.
- (intransitive) To return to one's possession, especially of memories.
verb
- go back to something earlier
- (hunting) Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
- (transitive, hunting) To call back (hounds); to recall.
- (by extension) To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.
- (figuratively) To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event).
noun
verb
- go back to something earlier
- make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
- summon to return
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- cause to be returned
- bring to mind
- cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again; to call another time.
- (transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
noun
- a bugle call that signals troops to return
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
- a call to return
- a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- the act of removing an official by petition
- (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
verb
- go back to something earlier
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- elect again
- answer back
- go back to a previous state
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- bring back to the point of departure
- give or supply
- pass down
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
noun
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- the act of going back to a prior location
- a reciprocal group action
- a coming to or returning home
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- getting something back again
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- An answer.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- The act of returning.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
verb
- come near in time
- move towards
- begin to deal with
- come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
- make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion
- (transitive) To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
- (intransitive, golf, tennis) To play an approach shot.
- (transitive, mathematical analysis) Used when defining limits, preceded by as: To become arbitrarily close to some value, be it a number, vector or infinity and have an effect on another value.
- (intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
- (ambitransitive, figuratively) Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
- (transitive) To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
- (transitive, military) To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.
- (transitive, rarely intransitive) Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
- (transitive) To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).
noun
- a way of entering or leaving
- a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
- a close approximation
- the event of one object coming closer to another
- the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
- the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- the act of drawing spatially closer to something
- a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- (also figuratively) An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
- (climbing) A path taken to reach the climbing area, for example, from a car park, road, etc.
- (also figuratively) An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
- (aviation, also attributively) The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
- (figuratively) A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).
- (golf, tennis) Ellipsis of approach shot.
- A specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.
- An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
- (bowling) The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
adv
- to a later time
- to a more central or a more northerly place
- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
- to a higher intensity
- nearer to the speaker
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
- (figuratively) To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- (rail transport) Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- To one's possession or consideration.
- To the north (as north is at the top of typical maps).
- To an upright or erect position.
- (sailing) Against the wind or current.
- (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
- Towards the source of a river, against the direction of flow.
- To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higher.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- From one's possession or consideration.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- (US, bartending) Without additional ice.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
adj
- out of bed
- (used of computers) operating properly
- extending or moving toward a higher place
- open
- getting higher or more vigorous
- being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
- used up
- (usually followed by ‘on’ or ‘for’) in readiness
- (US, bartending) Chilled and served without ice; (often specifically) shaken with ice and then strained into a coupe for serving, leaving the ice behind.
- Awake and out of bed.
- (horse-racing) Riding the horse; mounted.
- (of the sun or moon) Above the horizon, in the sky.
- (computing) Functional; working.
- (usually in the phrase up for) Willing; ready.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Next in a sequence.
- Facing upwards.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Raised; lifted.
- Aloft.
- (slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned
- In a good mood.
- (of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
- Well-informed; current.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Built, constructed.
- (slang) Erect.
- On or at a physically higher level.
- (predicative only) Finished, to an end
- (by extension) Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- (predicative only) Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Standing; upright.
verb
- raise
- (computing, slang, transitive) To upload.
- (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
- (intransitive, often in combination with another verb) To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
- (transitive, colloquial) To increase the level or amount of.
- (transitive, poetic or in certain phrases) To physically raise or lift.
noun
prep
- (vulgar slang) Of a person: having sex with.
- Toward the top of.
- From south to north of.
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
adv
adj
adv
- To a later time.
- To an earlier time.
- At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving.
- So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior.
- In or for the future.
- At an earlier time; beforehand; in advance.
- to a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced either toward the present or toward the future)
- ahead of time; in anticipation
- toward the future; forward in time
- at or in the front
- leading or ahead in a competition
- to a more advanced or advantageous position
- in a forward direction
adj
adv
adj
noun
- An anonymous person, traditionally especially a published author but now especially an internet rando.
- A work with an unknown author.
- A work without a title.
- (Internet) An anonymous poster (“person who contributes a note, message, etc”). A participant in an online site, such as a forum or an imageboard, without an account, or who posts without identifying themselves, or hidden behind a pseudonym.
adv
- To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.
- In the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.
- In the usual order or sequence.
- Into the future.
- So that front and back are in the usual orientation.
- At, near or towards the front of something.
- forward in time or order or degree
- near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
- at or to or toward the front; forward
- toward the future; forward in time
- in a forward direction
adj
- Situated toward or at the front of something.
- (figuratively) Moving in the desired direction of progress.
- Having the usual order or sequence.
- Prominent, emphasized (or, in combinations, emphasizing).
- Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
- Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
- (of troops, guns etc.) Situated toward or near the enemy lines.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.
- moving forward
- at or near or directed toward the front
- used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty
- of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
noun
- (rugby) One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).
- (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
- (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- (finance) A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
- (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
- Misspelling of foreword (“preface or introduction”).
- (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
- the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey
- a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team
verb
- (transitive) To advance, promote.
- (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.
- (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
- (intransitive, Caribbean) To arrive, come.
- send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit
adv
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
adj
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
noun
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- A ferryboat.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
verb
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
prep
- Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
- In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
- Subsequently to and considering.
- (Ireland, Newfoundland, usually preceded by a form of be, followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity.
- (in reduplicative expressions) Repeatedly, seemingly in a sequence without end.
- Subsequently to and in spite of.
- In pursuit of, seeking.
- Behind.
- Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
- Subsequently to and as a result of.
- (often with verbs related to cleaning or tidying) Subsequently to the actions of (someone), in order to remedy a situation.
- Below, often next below, in importance or rank.
adv
adj
conj
noun
adv
- To a future time.
- Beyond or in excess of what is correct or expected.
- Up one side of something, across, and then down the other side.
- So as to reverse up/down orientation, or otherwise change orientation by rotating.
- From an upright position to a horizontal one.
- On top of something, or so as to cover something.
- (often in compounds) To a high or excessive degree; overly; see also over-.
- Overnight (throughout the night).
- Across from one side of something to the other.
- Expressing figurative movement from one position or state across to another.
- Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
- Indicating a direction or location away from the speaker, usually roughly horizontally or visualised as such.
- So as to pass above.
- (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again.
- So as to fold towards or onto itself.
- From one position or location to another, horizontally or approximately so, or along a route visualised as "across".
- See also individual entries for phrasal verbs: go over, hand over, run over, take over, win over, etc.
- So as to reverse or exchange position(s).
- Used for rhetorical effect to reinforce that something was done the stated number of times.
- Across something, such as an edge, and then downwards.
- beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position
- at or to a point across intervening space etc.
- throughout a period of time
- over the entire area
- throughout an area
adj
- (professional wrestling slang) Of a wrestler: generating a reaction from fans.
- (informal) Visiting one's home or other location.
- (botany) Of a flower: wilting or withering.
- Having surmounted an obstacle.
- Surplus to requirements.
- Finished; ended; concluded.
- (informal, of an ongoing situation) Hopeless; irrecoverable.
- (informal) Having an excess in a particular respect.
- having come or been brought to a conclusion
intj
noun
- (gambling) A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such a points scored in a game, will be above a certain stated value.
- (informal) Something having an excess of a particular property.
- Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
- (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.
- (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch
prep
- While doing an activity involving (something), especially while consuming.
- (informal, for 'over at/in/on') At or near (a location seen as 'across' from the speaker's location).
- Indicating relative status, authority, or power
- Across, from one side to the other.
- Expressing causation: due to, as the result of.
- Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding.
- To a greater degree than.
- On the other side of.
- From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.
- In a position of having overcome (a problem or issue); past; finished with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two.
- Through or around all the parts of.
- Across (something) and then downwards.
- (mathematics) Divided by.
- Concerning or regarding.
- Above; higher than; further up than.
- (poker) Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.
- (music, more common in speech) Separates the primary chord of a slash chord from the bass note
- During or throughout (a time period).
- More than (a given value, amount, limit etc.); beyond; past; exceeding.
- On top of; in such a way as to cover.
- (in certain collocations) As compared to.
- Across, so as to pass above.
- Through or via (a particular transmission medium).
adv
noun
adv
prep
conj
noun
adj
- Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
- coming at a subsequent time or stage
- At some time in the future.
- Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)
- comparative form of late: more late
- at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
adv
- Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
- At some unspecified time in the future.
- comparative form of late: more late
- (Manglish, Singlish) What if (something problematic or unanticipated happens); if not (something undesirable will happen).
- happening at a time subsequent to a reference time
- at some eventual time in the future
- comparative of the adverb ‘late’
intj
adv
- Toward or into the past.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
- in or to or toward a past time
adj
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
- (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Late or behindhand.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Retarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
- (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- retarded in intellectual development
- (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
- having made less than normal progress
- directed or facing toward the back or rear
noun
adv
prep
adj
- Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
- coming at a subsequent time or stage
- At some time in the future.
- Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)
- comparative form of late: more late
- at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
adv
- Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
- At some unspecified time in the future.
- comparative form of late: more late
- (Manglish, Singlish) What if (something problematic or unanticipated happens); if not (something undesirable will happen).
- happening at a time subsequent to a reference time
- at some eventual time in the future
- comparative of the adverb ‘late’
intj
adj
- coming at a subsequent time or stage
- located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure
- (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
- (medicine) Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
- (formal) Following in order or in time.
noun
adj
- coming at a subsequent time or stage
- beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote
- lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
- Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.
- Situated beyond, or on the farther side.
- Beyond what is obvious or evident.
adj
- earlier in time
- of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body
- (anatomy) Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
- (botany) (of a part of a flower or leaf) Situated further away from the mainstem.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with an obstruction located in front of the palato-alveolar region of the mouth, e.g. b, p, d, t.
- (formal) Coming before or earlier in time or development, prior to, preceding.
noun
adj
- earlier in time
- More important or significant.
- (Bayesian statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
- Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
noun
- the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
- An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
- The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
- (by extension) In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
- The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
- (Canada, US, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.
- The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
- In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
- The head friar of a house of friars.
- A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
- (Bayesian statistics) A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
adv
adj
- between an earlier and a later period of time
- being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
- of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
- equally distant from the extremes
- Central.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.
- Located in the middle; in between.
noun
- an intermediate part or section
- the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
- the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- A centre, midpoint.
- The part between the beginning and the end.
- (politics) the center of the political spectrum.
- (grammar) The middle voice.
- (cricket) The middle stump.
- The central part of a human body; the waist.
verb
adj
- far along in time
- situated ahead or going before
- ahead of the times
- (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry
- ahead in development; complex or intricate
- comparatively late in a course of development
- farther along in physical or mental development
- at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill
- In a late stage of development or education; having greatly progressed beyond an initial stage.
- Having moved forward in time or space (e.g. advanced ignition timing).
- Involving greater complexity; more difficult, elaborate or specialized.
- At or close to the state of the art.
- (Philippines, of a clock or watch) Indicating a time ahead of the correct time.
- (phonetics) Pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract.
verb
adj
- far along in time
- at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- fully prepared or eager
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
- (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
- Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
- Ready for action or effect; prepared.
- (proscribed, used with with) Rife
- (colloquial) Ofa person, ready, willing, eager.
- Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
- (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
- Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.