English words for '(computing, typography) To set in small caps.'
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verb
noun
noun
- A typesetter.
- Any of several long-haired breeds of hunting dog that set when they have scented game.
- (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
- (object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- one who sets written material into type
- a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point
verb
noun
- (printing) Typesetting.
- (mathematics) Applying a function to the result of another.
- (linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
- Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
- A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
- A work of music, literature or art.
- The general makeup of a thing or person.
- The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
- (law) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
- (object-oriented programming) Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.
- The act of putting together; assembly.
- (physics) The compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.
- (painting, photography) The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
- (chess) A puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with a particular task.
- An essay.
- an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
- something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole
- musical creation
- the act of creating written works
- art and technique of printing with movable type
- the way in which someone or something is composed
- the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole
- a mixture of ingredients
- a musical work that has been created
verb
- To enclose in typographical brackets.
- (military) To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
- (photography) To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
- To set aside, discount, ignore.
- To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.
- To place in the same category.
- To support by means of mechanical brackets.
- To mark distinctly for special treatment.
- (philosophy, phenomenology) In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.
- support with brackets
- classify or group
- place into brackets
noun
- (US) “[” and “]” specifically, as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
- (nautical) A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
- A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
- (algebra) A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
- (typography) The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
- (sports) A diagram of games in a tournament.
- Alternative form of bragget (“drink made with ale and honey”).
- (military) Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
- (engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
- (military) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
- (sports) A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
- (UK) “(” and “)” specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
- One of several ranges of numbers.
- either of two punctuation marks (‘<’ or ‘>’) used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material
- a category falling within certain defined limits
- either of two punctuation marks (‘[’ or ‘]’) used to enclose textual material
- a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf)
noun
- (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
- (computing, typography, metonymic) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- (informal) The design of any text.
- A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- bowl for baptismal water
verb
noun
noun
- (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
- (in libraries) An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
- (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- (entomology) Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
- (historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
- (computing) Clipping of memory page.
- A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
- (Internet) A web page.
- (figurative) A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
- One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
- a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
- a boy who is employed to run errands
- one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
- in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
verb
- (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
- (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- (transitive) To furnish with folios.
- (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
- (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
- work as a page
- number the pages of a book or manuscript
- contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
noun
- a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container
- as much as a thimble will hold
- (technology) A socket in machinery shaped like a thimble.
- (nautical) A metal ring which a cable or rope intended for attaching to other things is looped around as a protection against chafing.
- As much as fills a thimble (sense 1); a thimbleful.
- (technology) A ring- or tube-shaped component such as a ferrule.
- (games) A thimble or similar object used in thimblerig (“a game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three thimbles or small cups a pea-sized object has been placed after the person operating the game rapidly rearranges them”).
- (sewing) A pitted, now usually metal, cup-shaped cap worn on the tip of a finger, which is used in sewing to push the needle through material.
verb
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Either of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
- (countable) A letter in these styles.
- (countable) A lowercase letter.
- a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
- the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
noun
- (typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
- (linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
- (psychology) Ellipsis of behavioral script, a sequence of actions in a given situation.
- (countable, law) An original instrument or document.
- (countable) The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.
- (countable) A writing; a written document.
- (computing) A brief and simple program.
- (informal) Clipping of prescription (for drugs or medicine).
- Written characters; style of writing.
- (computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
- a particular orthography or writing system
- a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
- something written by hand
verb
verb
noun
- a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention)
- a written message addressed to a person or organization
- the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
- owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire
- an award earned by participation in a school sport
- A written or printed communication, usually defined as longer and more formal than a note. (Sometimes specifically one that is on paper.)
- (US, uncountable) A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm).
- (Canada, uncountable) A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.
- (US, scholastic) Clipping of varsity letter.
- One who lets, or lets out.
- (in the plural) Literature.
- (law) A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.
- A symbol in an alphabet.
- The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (the spirit).
noun
- (printing) A square bracket.
- (surgery, now chiefly historical) A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery.
- (military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
- (military) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
- A forked support; a crotch.
- (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
- a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
- a strange attitude or habit
- a small tool or hooklike implement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
noun
- (computing) Initialism of computer-aided drafting.
- (computing, engineering) Acronym of computer-aided design.
- (public safety) Initialism of computer-aided dispatch.
- (medicine, cardiology) Initialism of coronary artery disease.
- (medicine) Initialism of computer-aided diagnosis.
- (import/export) Initialism of cash against documents, an arrangement where the purchaser must pay the total price in cash in order to get shipping papers from the seller or (usually) a third party.
- (computing) Initialism of control alt delete.
- (medicine) Initialism of cold agglutinin disease.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of caspase-activated DNase.
- software used in art and architecture and engineering and manufacturing to assist in precision drawing
noun
- a writing implement for making a mark
- some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something
- a distinguishing symbol
- (figurative) A personal favor owed to someone, whether written or not.
- (competition law) A formal certification that a company was the first to approach a competition authority to reveal the existence of a cartel, generally entitling it to greater leniency during the cartel's dissolution and punishment.
- (linguistics) Ellipsis of discourse marker.
- Any of various objects that mark a place on the landscape, such as a milepost, blaze, or surveyor's cairn.
- (uncountable, colloquial) The ink marks or residue of a felt-tipped pen.
- (Philippines, informal, basketball, volleyball) A point, unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- A scorekeeper, especially one who tallies billiard scores.
- (military) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column or marks the direction of an alignment.
- A direction issued by a camera operator for actors to be on their locations in readiness for a take.
- A sewing machine attachment that creases the fabric to mark a line
- (UK) Someone who assigns marks on tests, examinations, etc.; a grader.
- A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
- (film, theater) A location on a stage or set where an actor is to stand or move to during a scene, usually indicated by a small X design placed on the floor.
- A counter, especially one used in card games or backgammon.
- (paintball) A device that fires a paintball.
- (sports) A player on defense used to mark one or more offensive players.
- Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
- (biology) A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
- (linguistics) A free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function.
- (biology, medicine) A substance used as an indicator for diagnosis or other analysis, a biomarker.
- (US, slang) Synonym of IOU, an informal record of a debt.
- A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen.
verb
noun
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- (meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- (music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- (US, regional, especially Westchester, New York) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- (colloquial, British, countable, uncountable, by extension) A quantity of money.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- (typography, US) A háček.
- (finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
- (UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- (zoology, collective) A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- (meteorology) A wedge tornado.
- (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- (phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- any shape that is triangular in cross section
- (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
- something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
- a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
- a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
verb
- (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- (transitive) To shape into a wedge.
- (ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
- (transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
- (transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
- (transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- (transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.
- (transitive) To cleave with a wedge.
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- put, fix, force, or implant
noun
- A modern and more streamlined and tighter fitting version of a flat cap
- (informal) The duck-billed platypus.
- Bull ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus, now Pteromylaeus bovinus).
- Percophis brasiliensis (Brazilian flathead).
- A kind of surgical mask with a trapezoid pouch-like design with shortened or absent side edges.
- (informal) A hadrosaur.
- A fish of the family Percophidae
- A check valve with two or more flaps, usually shaped like a duck's beak, commonly used in medical applications to prevent contamination due to backflow.
- (firefighting) A device used to force padlocks.
- small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae
- primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout
adj
adj
noun
- a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt
- writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
- Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph.
- (by extension) Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol.
- (chiefly in the plural) A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds, often as a rebus.
noun
- a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
- any long object resembling a thin line
- An awareness ribbon.
- (spinning) A sliver.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
- (journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
- A narrow strip or shred.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus with a handle and a long narrow strip of fabric.
- (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
- (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
- A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ribbon.
- (nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
- A bandsaw.
- An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
- (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband.
- A watchspring.
verb
noun
- A writing-tablet, slate, or similar medium on which to write.
- A table, index, or list of data.
- A legal record.
- A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.
- (uncountable, historical) An ancient Roman game similar to backgammon that was played on a board with 24 divisions.
- (zoology) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
- A frontal; a drapery for an altar.
noun
- A typesetter.
- Any of several long-haired breeds of hunting dog that set when they have scented game.
- (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
- (object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- one who sets written material into type
- a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point
verb
noun
- (printing) Typesetting.
- (mathematics) Applying a function to the result of another.
- (linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
- Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
- A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
- A work of music, literature or art.
- The general makeup of a thing or person.
- The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
- (law) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
- (object-oriented programming) Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.
- The act of putting together; assembly.
- (physics) The compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.
- (painting, photography) The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
- (chess) A puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with a particular task.
- An essay.
- an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
- something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole
- musical creation
- the act of creating written works
- art and technique of printing with movable type
- the way in which someone or something is composed
- the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole
- a mixture of ingredients
- a musical work that has been created
noun
- (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
- (computing, typography, metonymic) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- (informal) The design of any text.
- A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- bowl for baptismal water
verb
noun
noun
- (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
- (in libraries) An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
- (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- (entomology) Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
- (historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
- (computing) Clipping of memory page.
- A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
- (Internet) A web page.
- (figurative) A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
- One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
- a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
- a boy who is employed to run errands
- one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
- in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
verb
- (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
- (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- (transitive) To furnish with folios.
- (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
- (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
- work as a page
- number the pages of a book or manuscript
- contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
noun
- a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container
- as much as a thimble will hold
- (technology) A socket in machinery shaped like a thimble.
- (nautical) A metal ring which a cable or rope intended for attaching to other things is looped around as a protection against chafing.
- As much as fills a thimble (sense 1); a thimbleful.
- (technology) A ring- or tube-shaped component such as a ferrule.
- (games) A thimble or similar object used in thimblerig (“a game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three thimbles or small cups a pea-sized object has been placed after the person operating the game rapidly rearranges them”).
- (sewing) A pitted, now usually metal, cup-shaped cap worn on the tip of a finger, which is used in sewing to push the needle through material.
verb
noun
- (typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
- (linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
- (psychology) Ellipsis of behavioral script, a sequence of actions in a given situation.
- (countable, law) An original instrument or document.
- (countable) The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.
- (countable) A writing; a written document.
- (computing) A brief and simple program.
- (informal) Clipping of prescription (for drugs or medicine).
- Written characters; style of writing.
- (computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
- a particular orthography or writing system
- a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
- something written by hand
verb
noun
- (printing) A square bracket.
- (surgery, now chiefly historical) A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery.
- (military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
- (military) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
- A forked support; a crotch.
- (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
- a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
- a strange attitude or habit
- a small tool or hooklike implement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
noun
- (computing) Initialism of computer-aided drafting.
- (computing, engineering) Acronym of computer-aided design.
- (public safety) Initialism of computer-aided dispatch.
- (medicine, cardiology) Initialism of coronary artery disease.
- (medicine) Initialism of computer-aided diagnosis.
- (import/export) Initialism of cash against documents, an arrangement where the purchaser must pay the total price in cash in order to get shipping papers from the seller or (usually) a third party.
- (computing) Initialism of control alt delete.
- (medicine) Initialism of cold agglutinin disease.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of caspase-activated DNase.
- software used in art and architecture and engineering and manufacturing to assist in precision drawing
noun
- a writing implement for making a mark
- some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something
- a distinguishing symbol
- (figurative) A personal favor owed to someone, whether written or not.
- (competition law) A formal certification that a company was the first to approach a competition authority to reveal the existence of a cartel, generally entitling it to greater leniency during the cartel's dissolution and punishment.
- (linguistics) Ellipsis of discourse marker.
- Any of various objects that mark a place on the landscape, such as a milepost, blaze, or surveyor's cairn.
- (uncountable, colloquial) The ink marks or residue of a felt-tipped pen.
- (Philippines, informal, basketball, volleyball) A point, unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- A scorekeeper, especially one who tallies billiard scores.
- (military) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column or marks the direction of an alignment.
- A direction issued by a camera operator for actors to be on their locations in readiness for a take.
- A sewing machine attachment that creases the fabric to mark a line
- (UK) Someone who assigns marks on tests, examinations, etc.; a grader.
- A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
- (film, theater) A location on a stage or set where an actor is to stand or move to during a scene, usually indicated by a small X design placed on the floor.
- A counter, especially one used in card games or backgammon.
- (paintball) A device that fires a paintball.
- (sports) A player on defense used to mark one or more offensive players.
- Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
- (biology) A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
- (linguistics) A free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function.
- (biology, medicine) A substance used as an indicator for diagnosis or other analysis, a biomarker.
- (US, slang) Synonym of IOU, an informal record of a debt.
- A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen.
verb
noun
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- (meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- (music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- (US, regional, especially Westchester, New York) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- (colloquial, British, countable, uncountable, by extension) A quantity of money.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- (typography, US) A háček.
- (finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
- (UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- (zoology, collective) A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- (meteorology) A wedge tornado.
- (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- (phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- any shape that is triangular in cross section
- (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
- something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
- a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
- a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
verb
- (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- (transitive) To shape into a wedge.
- (ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
- (transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
- (transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
- (transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- (transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.
- (transitive) To cleave with a wedge.
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- put, fix, force, or implant
noun
- A modern and more streamlined and tighter fitting version of a flat cap
- (informal) The duck-billed platypus.
- Bull ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus, now Pteromylaeus bovinus).
- Percophis brasiliensis (Brazilian flathead).
- A kind of surgical mask with a trapezoid pouch-like design with shortened or absent side edges.
- (informal) A hadrosaur.
- A fish of the family Percophidae
- A check valve with two or more flaps, usually shaped like a duck's beak, commonly used in medical applications to prevent contamination due to backflow.
- (firefighting) A device used to force padlocks.
- small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae
- primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout
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noun
- a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
- any long object resembling a thin line
- An awareness ribbon.
- (spinning) A sliver.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
- (journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
- A narrow strip or shred.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus with a handle and a long narrow strip of fabric.
- (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
- (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
- A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ribbon.
- (nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
- A bandsaw.
- An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
- (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband.
- A watchspring.
verb
noun
- A writing-tablet, slate, or similar medium on which to write.
- A table, index, or list of data.
- A legal record.
- A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.
- (uncountable, historical) An ancient Roman game similar to backgammon that was played on a board with 24 divisions.
- (zoology) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
- A frontal; a drapery for an altar.
verb
noun
verb
- To enclose in typographical brackets.
- (military) To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
- (photography) To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
- To set aside, discount, ignore.
- To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.
- To place in the same category.
- To support by means of mechanical brackets.
- To mark distinctly for special treatment.
- (philosophy, phenomenology) In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.
- support with brackets
- classify or group
- place into brackets
noun
- (US) “[” and “]” specifically, as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
- (nautical) A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
- A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
- (algebra) A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
- (typography) The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
- (sports) A diagram of games in a tournament.
- Alternative form of bragget (“drink made with ale and honey”).
- (military) Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
- (engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
- (military) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
- (sports) A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
- (UK) “(” and “)” specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
- One of several ranges of numbers.
- either of two punctuation marks (‘<’ or ‘>’) used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material
- a category falling within certain defined limits
- either of two punctuation marks (‘[’ or ‘]’) used to enclose textual material
- a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf)
verb
noun
- a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention)
- a written message addressed to a person or organization
- the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
- owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire
- an award earned by participation in a school sport
- A written or printed communication, usually defined as longer and more formal than a note. (Sometimes specifically one that is on paper.)
- (US, uncountable) A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm).
- (Canada, uncountable) A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.
- (US, scholastic) Clipping of varsity letter.
- One who lets, or lets out.
- (in the plural) Literature.
- (law) A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.
- A symbol in an alphabet.
- The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (the spirit).
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Either of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
- (countable) A letter in these styles.
- (countable) A lowercase letter.
- a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
- the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
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noun
- a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt
- writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
- Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph.
- (by extension) Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol.
- (chiefly in the plural) A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds, often as a rebus.