English words for '(figuratively) A comrade.'
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noun
- A companion; a comrade.
- One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
- (algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
- Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
- A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
- A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
- a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise
- any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor
- a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
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- (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
- (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
- (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
- (mathematics) To be associative.
- (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
- make a logical or causal connection
- bring or come into association or action
- keep company with; hang out with
noun
- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
- A look; a glance.
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
- A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
verb
- To make equal in rank.
- (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
- look searchingly
noun
- A fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother.
- A billy goat.
- A slubbing or roving machine.
- (Geordie) A good friend.
- A highwayman's club, billy club.
- (slang) A condom.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.
- (Australia, slang) A bong for smoking marijuana.
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- male goat
noun
- A companion in battle; fellow soldier.
- A mate, companion, or associate.
- (communism, by extension) A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.
- (communism) A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist, socialist, or rarely in an Islamist state.
- used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
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- (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
- (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
- (transitive, slang) To criticize.
- (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
- (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
- (intransitive, emerging usage in British) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- go after with the intent to catch
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- (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, and their relatives (extant and extinct).
- (often attributive) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- (derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- (informal) Something that performs poorly.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Foot; toe.
- (transport, historical) A double-ended side spike driven through a hole in the flange of a rail on a tramway.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
- (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- (poker slang) An underdog.
- (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- (slang) A sexually aggressive man.
- (slang) A man, guy, chap.
- (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
- a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
- someone who is morally reprehensible
- metal supports for logs in a fireplace
- a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds
- a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman
- informal term for a man
- a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll
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- (military) A soldier.
- (military) A cavalry horse; a charger.
- (Australia, law enforcement) A mounted policeman.
- (figurative, colloquial) Misspelling of trouper (“one who stoically endures adversity”) .
- (military) A soldier of private rank in cavalry or armor.
- (British, nautical, military) A troopship.
- (US, law enforcement) Ellipsis of state trooper.
- a state police officer
- a soldier in a motorized army unit
- a mounted police officer
- a soldier mounted on horseback
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- A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
- (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
- A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
- (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
- A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
- (nautical) A first mate.
- The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
- Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) A friend, usually of the same sex.
- The other member of a matched pair of objects.
- informal term for a friend of the same sex
- an exact duplicate
- the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
- a person's partner in marriage
- a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
- one of a pair
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- a fellow member of a team
- South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
verb
- (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
- (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
- (intransitive) To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
- (intransitive) To copulate.
- (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
- (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
- (transitive, aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
- (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
- (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
- (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
- engage in sexual intercourse
noun
- (by extension) A military veteran.
- A person who has served in a military campaign.
- Someone with experience in a certain field.
- A person who campaigns for a person running for political office or works, or supports, in an organised and active way towards a goal; an activist.
- a politician who is running for public office
noun
- (chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
- (chiefly in the plural) An animal which is a member of a breed or species, or a flock, herd, etc.
- (chiefly British) A scholar appointed to a fellowship, that is, a paid academic position held for a certain period which usually requires the scholar to conduct research.
- A (senior) member of a learned or professional society.
- Usually qualified by an adjective or used in the plural: an individual or person regardless of gender.
- (informal) A male person; a bloke, a chap, a guy, a man; also, preceded by a modifying word, sometimes with a sense of mild reproach: used as a familiar term of address to a man.
- (chiefly in the negative) A person with abilities, achievements, skills, etc., equal to those of another person; a thing with characteristics, worth, etc., equal to those of another thing.
- An honorary title bestowed by a college or university upon a distinguished person (often an alumna or alumnus).
- Originally, one of a group of academics who make up a college or similar educational institution; now, a senior member of a college or similar educational institution involved in teaching, research, and management of the institution.
- (US) A senior researcher or technician in a corporation, especially one engaged in research and development.
- (Canada, US) A physician undergoing a fellowship (supervised subspecialty medical training) after having completed a residency (specialty training program).
- (specifically, British, historical) A senior member of an Inn of Court.
- (US) A member of a college or university who manages its business interests.
- (chiefly in the plural) An object which is associated with another object; especially, as part of a set.
- (also attributively) A person or thing comparable in characteristics with another person or thing; especially, as belonging to the same class or group.
- (chiefly in the plural) One in the same condition, or situation of need, as another.
- (by extension, often humorous or ironic) An animal or object.
- a man who is the lover of a man or woman
- one of a pair
- a person who is member of one's class or profession
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a boy or man
- a member of a learned society
- an informal form of address for a man
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- (countable, military) A common soldier.
- (countable) One who ranks things, or arranges them in ranks.
- (countable) One with a specified rank.
- A kind of soil developed over non-calcareous material, usually rock.
- a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status
- an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces
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- (physics, for any effective theory) approximate; Not describing the fundamental dynamic changes in some system as they happen.
- (algebra, of a group action) Such that no group element acts trivially.
- Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
- Actually in effect.
- Producing a decided or decisive effect.
- Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
- (geometry, of a cycle or divisor) Having no negative coefficients.
- works well as a means or remedy
- exerting force or influence
- ready for service
- producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect
- existing in fact; not theoretical; real
- able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively
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- (humorous, rare) Any person, especially a male comrade.
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) A man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison.
- (music) Ellipsis of punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums and shocking or political lyrics.
- (circus slang) A young, untrained animal or worker.
- (science fiction, usually in compounds) Any of the -punk genres, typically involving anachronistic technology and its social impact: dieselpunk, solarpunk, steampunk etc.
- (derogatory) A weak, timid person.
- (countable, US, slang) A worthless person, particularly:
- A nonconformist social movement originally associated with punk rock and its fans, combining anarchism and radicalism, usually (but not necessarily) left-wing.
- (uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
- A person who designs or dresses in punk fashion style.
- Ellipsis of punk rocker; a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre.
- (US, LGBTQ, slang) A boy who accompanies a hobo, especially as used for sex.
- Synonym of amateur.
- (US, LGBTQ, derogatory, chiefly African-American Vernacular) A male homosexual.
- A member of the punk social movement; usually anarchist and socially non-conformist although potentially either left-wing or right-wing.
- (countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
- (fashion) The fashion style associated with punk rock, typically involving leather, metal studs and pins, distressed clothing and confrontational slogans.
- (chiefly US, LGBTQ) A passive or effeminate homosexual man.
- (science fiction, usually in compounds) A fan of a -punk genre of fiction, or a person who dresses in a style associated with it.
- (derogatory) A petty criminal, especially a juvenile delinquent.
- a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture
- material for starting a fire
- substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks)
- rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
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- (military) A private in the line.
- (soccer) An assistant referee.
- A person employed to work on electrical lines; a lineman.
- (American football) An official whose primary task is to determine whether there has been a line of scrimmage violation.
- (ice hockey) An official whose primary task is to watch the blue line and determine when there has been an offside.
- male official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside)
- a male person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines
noun
- A colleague.
- Any band or body of warriors.
- (taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
- A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.
- An accomplice; abettor; associate.
- (statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
- A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
- (historical, Ancient Rome, military) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 or 600 men (equalling about six centuries).
- a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion)
- a group of people having approximately the same age
- a company of companions or supporters
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- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
- The second gear of an engine.
- (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- (baseball) Second base.
- (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- (informal) A second-class honours degree.
- following the first in an ordering or series
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- a particular point in time
- an indefinitely short time
- a speech seconding a motion
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- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
- coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude
- a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first
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- (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
- (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
- (transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
- give support or one's approval to
- transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment
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- (military, archaic except humorous) A man whose occupation is fighting in wars; a soldier, a warrior.
- (military, nautical, chiefly historical) A powerful armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails; a warship.
- Ellipsis of Portuguese man-of-war (“Physalia physalis, a jellyfish-like marine cnidarian consisting of a floating colony of hydrozoans attached to a float”).
- Ellipsis of man-of-war bird or (obsolete) man-of-war hawk (“any of a number of seabirds, especially one which attacks other seabirds to take their food”).
- (specifically, US) The Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).
- a warship intended for combat
- large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
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- an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit
- (colloquial, often humorous) A political functionary whose job is to push the party or government line.
- (historical) An official of the Communist Party, often attached to a military unit, who was responsible for political education.
- (historical, early Soviet Union) The head of a commissariat.
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- A companion; a comrade.
- One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
- (algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
- Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
- A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
- A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
- a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise
- any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor
- a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
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- (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
- (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
- (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
- (mathematics) To be associative.
- (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
- make a logical or causal connection
- bring or come into association or action
- keep company with; hang out with
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- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
- A look; a glance.
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
- A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
verb
- To make equal in rank.
- (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
- look searchingly
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- A fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother.
- A billy goat.
- A slubbing or roving machine.
- (Geordie) A good friend.
- A highwayman's club, billy club.
- (slang) A condom.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.
- (Australia, slang) A bong for smoking marijuana.
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- male goat
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- A companion in battle; fellow soldier.
- A mate, companion, or associate.
- (communism, by extension) A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.
- (communism) A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist, socialist, or rarely in an Islamist state.
- used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
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- (military) A soldier.
- (military) A cavalry horse; a charger.
- (Australia, law enforcement) A mounted policeman.
- (figurative, colloquial) Misspelling of trouper (“one who stoically endures adversity”) .
- (military) A soldier of private rank in cavalry or armor.
- (British, nautical, military) A troopship.
- (US, law enforcement) Ellipsis of state trooper.
- a state police officer
- a soldier in a motorized army unit
- a mounted police officer
- a soldier mounted on horseback
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- A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
- (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
- A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
- (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
- A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
- (nautical) A first mate.
- The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
- Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) A friend, usually of the same sex.
- The other member of a matched pair of objects.
- informal term for a friend of the same sex
- an exact duplicate
- the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
- a person's partner in marriage
- a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
- one of a pair
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- a fellow member of a team
- South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
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- (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
- (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
- (intransitive) To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
- (intransitive) To copulate.
- (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
- (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
- (transitive, aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
- (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
- (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
- (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
- engage in sexual intercourse
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- (by extension) A military veteran.
- A person who has served in a military campaign.
- Someone with experience in a certain field.
- A person who campaigns for a person running for political office or works, or supports, in an organised and active way towards a goal; an activist.
- a politician who is running for public office
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- (chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
- (chiefly in the plural) An animal which is a member of a breed or species, or a flock, herd, etc.
- (chiefly British) A scholar appointed to a fellowship, that is, a paid academic position held for a certain period which usually requires the scholar to conduct research.
- A (senior) member of a learned or professional society.
- Usually qualified by an adjective or used in the plural: an individual or person regardless of gender.
- (informal) A male person; a bloke, a chap, a guy, a man; also, preceded by a modifying word, sometimes with a sense of mild reproach: used as a familiar term of address to a man.
- (chiefly in the negative) A person with abilities, achievements, skills, etc., equal to those of another person; a thing with characteristics, worth, etc., equal to those of another thing.
- An honorary title bestowed by a college or university upon a distinguished person (often an alumna or alumnus).
- Originally, one of a group of academics who make up a college or similar educational institution; now, a senior member of a college or similar educational institution involved in teaching, research, and management of the institution.
- (US) A senior researcher or technician in a corporation, especially one engaged in research and development.
- (Canada, US) A physician undergoing a fellowship (supervised subspecialty medical training) after having completed a residency (specialty training program).
- (specifically, British, historical) A senior member of an Inn of Court.
- (US) A member of a college or university who manages its business interests.
- (chiefly in the plural) An object which is associated with another object; especially, as part of a set.
- (also attributively) A person or thing comparable in characteristics with another person or thing; especially, as belonging to the same class or group.
- (chiefly in the plural) One in the same condition, or situation of need, as another.
- (by extension, often humorous or ironic) An animal or object.
- a man who is the lover of a man or woman
- one of a pair
- a person who is member of one's class or profession
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a boy or man
- a member of a learned society
- an informal form of address for a man
noun
- (countable, military) A common soldier.
- (countable) One who ranks things, or arranges them in ranks.
- (countable) One with a specified rank.
- A kind of soil developed over non-calcareous material, usually rock.
- a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status
- an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces
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- (physics, for any effective theory) approximate; Not describing the fundamental dynamic changes in some system as they happen.
- (algebra, of a group action) Such that no group element acts trivially.
- Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
- Actually in effect.
- Producing a decided or decisive effect.
- Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
- (geometry, of a cycle or divisor) Having no negative coefficients.
- works well as a means or remedy
- exerting force or influence
- ready for service
- producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect
- existing in fact; not theoretical; real
- able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively
noun
- (humorous, rare) Any person, especially a male comrade.
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) A man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison.
- (music) Ellipsis of punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums and shocking or political lyrics.
- (circus slang) A young, untrained animal or worker.
- (science fiction, usually in compounds) Any of the -punk genres, typically involving anachronistic technology and its social impact: dieselpunk, solarpunk, steampunk etc.
- (derogatory) A weak, timid person.
- (countable, US, slang) A worthless person, particularly:
- A nonconformist social movement originally associated with punk rock and its fans, combining anarchism and radicalism, usually (but not necessarily) left-wing.
- (uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
- A person who designs or dresses in punk fashion style.
- Ellipsis of punk rocker; a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre.
- (US, LGBTQ, slang) A boy who accompanies a hobo, especially as used for sex.
- Synonym of amateur.
- (US, LGBTQ, derogatory, chiefly African-American Vernacular) A male homosexual.
- A member of the punk social movement; usually anarchist and socially non-conformist although potentially either left-wing or right-wing.
- (countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
- (fashion) The fashion style associated with punk rock, typically involving leather, metal studs and pins, distressed clothing and confrontational slogans.
- (chiefly US, LGBTQ) A passive or effeminate homosexual man.
- (science fiction, usually in compounds) A fan of a -punk genre of fiction, or a person who dresses in a style associated with it.
- (derogatory) A petty criminal, especially a juvenile delinquent.
- a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture
- material for starting a fire
- substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks)
- rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
adj
verb
noun
- (military) A private in the line.
- (soccer) An assistant referee.
- A person employed to work on electrical lines; a lineman.
- (American football) An official whose primary task is to determine whether there has been a line of scrimmage violation.
- (ice hockey) An official whose primary task is to watch the blue line and determine when there has been an offside.
- male official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside)
- a male person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines
noun
- A colleague.
- Any band or body of warriors.
- (taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
- A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.
- An accomplice; abettor; associate.
- (statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
- A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
- (historical, Ancient Rome, military) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 or 600 men (equalling about six centuries).
- a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion)
- a group of people having approximately the same age
- a company of companions or supporters
verb
noun
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
- The second gear of an engine.
- (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- (baseball) Second base.
- (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- (informal) A second-class honours degree.
- following the first in an ordering or series
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- a particular point in time
- an indefinitely short time
- a speech seconding a motion
adj
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
- coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude
- a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first
adv
verb
- (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
- (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
- (transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
- give support or one's approval to
- transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment
noun
- (military, archaic except humorous) A man whose occupation is fighting in wars; a soldier, a warrior.
- (military, nautical, chiefly historical) A powerful armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails; a warship.
- Ellipsis of Portuguese man-of-war (“Physalia physalis, a jellyfish-like marine cnidarian consisting of a floating colony of hydrozoans attached to a float”).
- Ellipsis of man-of-war bird or (obsolete) man-of-war hawk (“any of a number of seabirds, especially one which attacks other seabirds to take their food”).
- (specifically, US) The Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).
- a warship intended for combat
- large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
noun
- an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit
- (colloquial, often humorous) A political functionary whose job is to push the party or government line.
- (historical) An official of the Communist Party, often attached to a military unit, who was responsible for political education.
- (historical, early Soviet Union) The head of a commissariat.
verb
- (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
- (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
- (transitive, slang) To criticize.
- (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
- (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
- (intransitive, emerging usage in British) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- go after with the intent to catch
adj
noun
- (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, and their relatives (extant and extinct).
- (often attributive) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- (derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- (informal) Something that performs poorly.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Foot; toe.
- (transport, historical) A double-ended side spike driven through a hole in the flange of a rail on a tramway.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
- (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- (poker slang) An underdog.
- (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- (slang) A sexually aggressive man.
- (slang) A man, guy, chap.
- (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
- a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
- someone who is morally reprehensible
- metal supports for logs in a fireplace
- a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds
- a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman
- informal term for a man
- a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll