English words for '(figuratively) To learn to avoid repeating a mistake.'
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verb
- learn by repetition
- train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- undergo military training or do military exercises
- teach by repetition
- (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
- (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
- (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
- (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- (slang) To shoot; to kill by shooting.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
noun
- similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored
- (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
- a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- (countable, music) A single performance of drill music.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
verb
- learn by repetition
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- do physical exercise
- put to use
- give a workout to
- (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- (now often passive voice) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
noun
- the act of using
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
verb
noun
- knowledge of how something is usually done
- the exercise of a profession
- a customary way of operation or behavior
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- translating an idea into action
- Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
- An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
- A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
- The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
- Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
- (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
verb
- learn by repetition
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- To make use of; to employ.
- (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
- (transitive) To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
- (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
noun
noun
- Something learned or to be learned.
- (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
- Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
- A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
- A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
- A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
- punishment intended as a warning to others
- a unit of instruction
- the significance of a story or event
- a task assigned for individual study
verb
noun
verb
- To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
- To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- To attend a course or other educational activity.
- (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) To teach.
- To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
- To study.
- commit to memory; learn by heart
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- be a student of a certain subject
- gain knowledge or skills
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- impart skills or knowledge to
verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To correct; to stop doing something wrong.
- (transitive) To tidy, neaten, or organize.
- (transitive) To make straight.
- (transitive, Mafia slang) To be made a made man in a Mafia organization.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To eliminate confusion from or concerning.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To correct or rectify.
- (transitive, informal) To (supposedly) make (a gay person) heterosexual.
- make straight
- put (things or places) in order
- settle or put right
- extricate from entanglement
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- change for the better
noun
- The practice of self-denial; self-restraint; forebearance from anything.
- Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating/alcoholic beverages; total abstinence; teetotalism).
- Specifically, the practice of abstaining from sexual intercourse, either permanently or until marriage.
- (business) Delay of spending to accrue capital.
- (ecclesiastical) Abstention from certain foods on days of penitential observance.
- The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite.
- the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
- act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
noun
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
conj
prep
verb
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
noun
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- the act of escaping physically
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- a means or way of escaping
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
- (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- (botany) A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.
- (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- (architecture) An apophyge.
- (computing) escape key
- (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
verb
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- fail to experience
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- run away from confinement
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
- (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
- (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
- (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
noun
- An act of figuring out or becoming aware.
- The act of making real.
- The result of an artistic effort.
- The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.
- coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
- making real or giving the appearance of reality
- the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer
- something that is made real or concrete
- a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained
- a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
verb
- (intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid.
- (chess, backgammon, intransitive) To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative, with adverb or preposition) To move in an unsteady way.
- (chess, transitive) To overlook the possibility of, or end up in, a specified undesirable situation after making a bad move.
- (chess, transitive) To lose a piece due to having made a bad move [with the piece lost].
- (intransitive, with adverb or preposition) To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
- commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- utter impulsively
noun
verb
noun
noun
- Correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.
- Act of being exact and accurate.
- (countable) Something that is true; a truthful statement; a truth.
- (uncountable, of a person) The quality of speaking or stating the truth; truthfulness.
- (uncountable) Agreement with the facts; accordance with the truth; accuracy or precision.
- unwillingness to tell lies
noun
- application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
- the act of moving something from one location to another
- someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another
- the act of transferring something from one form to another
- a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances
- transferring ownership
- (uncountable, linguistics) Ellipsis of language transfer.
- (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
- (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
- (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
- (US, Canada, varsity sports) Ellipsis of transfer student.
- (countable, transport) An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
- (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
- (countable) Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
- (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
- (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
- A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
- (countable, transport) A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
verb
- move from one place to another
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- move around
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- send from one person or place to another
- cause to change ownership
- transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- transfer from one place or period to another
- lift and reset in another soil or situation
- (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
- (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
- (intransitive) To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
- (transport, of a traveler) To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
- (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
noun
- The act by which something is foiled; prevention of success.
- (nautical) Clipping of hydrofoiling (“the action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water”).
- (architecture) A foil.
- (hunting) The track of game, such as deer, in the grass.
- an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
verb
verb
- (transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
- (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
- (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
- avoid (one's assigned duties)
- avoid dealing with
noun
noun
- someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
- someone who supervises (an examination)
- electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
- display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor
- a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
- any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
- (engineering) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring several tools successively into position.
- Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
- A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
- A monitor nozzle.
- A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
- (computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
- A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
- (nautical) A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat.
- (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
verb
verb
- cause to unlearn
- cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to unlearn; to make (someone) forget something they have been taught, or recognize it as erroneous, etc.
- (transitive) To cause (something previously learned) to be forgotten, or recognized as an error, etc.
verb
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
noun
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- (video games, countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
verb
- To not forget (to do something required)
- To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
- To memorize; to put something into memory.
- (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.
- (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.
- To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
- (rare) Alternative form of re-member.
- To convey greetings from.
- (transitive) To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony.
- recapture the past; indulge in memories
- mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
- show appreciation to
- exercise, or have the power of, memory
- mention favorably, as in prayer
- call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- keep in mind for attention or consideration
noun
- (figuratively) The effacement of errors or bad actions.
- The application of whitewash.
- (derogatory) The process of whitewashing, of making over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white (Caucasian), for example by applying makeup to a person, or by covering over the participation of non-whites in an event and focusing on only white participation.
verb
noun
- a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
- an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended
- a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
- a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
- Lack of understanding due to dementia.
- (collective) A group of wildebeest.
- The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
- A lack of clarity or order.
- The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
verb
- conform one's action or practice to
- hold and prevent from leaving
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To restrain.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
verb
- conform one's action or practice to
- follow with the eyes or the mind
- show respect towards
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
- make mention of
- watch attentively
- observe with care or pay close attention to
- stick to correctly or closely
- (intransitive) To comment on something; to make an observation.
- (transitive) To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
- (transitive) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
- (transitive) To take note of and celebrate (a holiday or similar occurrence), to keep; to follow (a type of time or calendar reckoning).
noun
- Something learned or to be learned.
- (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
- Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
- A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
- A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
- A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
- punishment intended as a warning to others
- a unit of instruction
- the significance of a story or event
- a task assigned for individual study
verb
noun
verb
- To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
- To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- To attend a course or other educational activity.
- (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) To teach.
- To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
- To study.
- commit to memory; learn by heart
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- be a student of a certain subject
- gain knowledge or skills
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- impart skills or knowledge to
noun
- The practice of self-denial; self-restraint; forebearance from anything.
- Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating/alcoholic beverages; total abstinence; teetotalism).
- Specifically, the practice of abstaining from sexual intercourse, either permanently or until marriage.
- (business) Delay of spending to accrue capital.
- (ecclesiastical) Abstention from certain foods on days of penitential observance.
- The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite.
- the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
- act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
noun
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
conj
prep
verb
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
noun
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- the act of escaping physically
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- a means or way of escaping
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
- (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- (botany) A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.
- (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- (architecture) An apophyge.
- (computing) escape key
- (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
verb
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- fail to experience
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- run away from confinement
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
- (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
- (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
- (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
noun
- An act of figuring out or becoming aware.
- The act of making real.
- The result of an artistic effort.
- The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.
- coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
- making real or giving the appearance of reality
- the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer
- something that is made real or concrete
- a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained
- a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
noun
- Correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.
- Act of being exact and accurate.
- (countable) Something that is true; a truthful statement; a truth.
- (uncountable, of a person) The quality of speaking or stating the truth; truthfulness.
- (uncountable) Agreement with the facts; accordance with the truth; accuracy or precision.
- unwillingness to tell lies
noun
- application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
- the act of moving something from one location to another
- someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another
- the act of transferring something from one form to another
- a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances
- transferring ownership
- (uncountable, linguistics) Ellipsis of language transfer.
- (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
- (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
- (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
- (US, Canada, varsity sports) Ellipsis of transfer student.
- (countable, transport) An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
- (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
- (countable) Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
- (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
- (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
- A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
- (countable, transport) A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
verb
- move from one place to another
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- move around
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- send from one person or place to another
- cause to change ownership
- transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- transfer from one place or period to another
- lift and reset in another soil or situation
- (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
- (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
- (intransitive) To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
- (transport, of a traveler) To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
- (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
noun
- The act by which something is foiled; prevention of success.
- (nautical) Clipping of hydrofoiling (“the action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water”).
- (architecture) A foil.
- (hunting) The track of game, such as deer, in the grass.
- an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
verb
noun
- someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
- someone who supervises (an examination)
- electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
- display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor
- a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
- any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
- (engineering) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring several tools successively into position.
- Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
- A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
- A monitor nozzle.
- A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
- (computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
- A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
- (nautical) A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat.
- (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
verb
verb
- learn by repetition
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- To make use of; to employ.
- (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
- (transitive) To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
- (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
noun
noun
- (figuratively) The effacement of errors or bad actions.
- The application of whitewash.
- (derogatory) The process of whitewashing, of making over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white (Caucasian), for example by applying makeup to a person, or by covering over the participation of non-whites in an event and focusing on only white participation.
verb
noun
- a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
- an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended
- a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
- a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
- Lack of understanding due to dementia.
- (collective) A group of wildebeest.
- The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
- A lack of clarity or order.
- The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
verb
- learn by repetition
- train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- undergo military training or do military exercises
- teach by repetition
- (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
- (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
- (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
- (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- (slang) To shoot; to kill by shooting.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
noun
- similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored
- (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
- a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- (countable, music) A single performance of drill music.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
verb
- learn by repetition
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- do physical exercise
- put to use
- give a workout to
- (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- (now often passive voice) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
noun
- the act of using
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
verb
noun
- knowledge of how something is usually done
- the exercise of a profession
- a customary way of operation or behavior
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- translating an idea into action
- Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
- An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
- A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
- The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
- Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
- (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
verb
- learn by repetition
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- To make use of; to employ.
- (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
- (transitive) To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
- (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
noun
verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To correct; to stop doing something wrong.
- (transitive) To tidy, neaten, or organize.
- (transitive) To make straight.
- (transitive, Mafia slang) To be made a made man in a Mafia organization.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To eliminate confusion from or concerning.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To correct or rectify.
- (transitive, informal) To (supposedly) make (a gay person) heterosexual.
- make straight
- put (things or places) in order
- settle or put right
- extricate from entanglement
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- change for the better
noun
verb
- To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
- To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- To attend a course or other educational activity.
- (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) To teach.
- To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
- To study.
- commit to memory; learn by heart
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- be a student of a certain subject
- gain knowledge or skills
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- impart skills or knowledge to
verb
- (intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid.
- (chess, backgammon, intransitive) To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative, with adverb or preposition) To move in an unsteady way.
- (chess, transitive) To overlook the possibility of, or end up in, a specified undesirable situation after making a bad move.
- (chess, transitive) To lose a piece due to having made a bad move [with the piece lost].
- (intransitive, with adverb or preposition) To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
- commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- utter impulsively
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
- (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
- (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
- avoid (one's assigned duties)
- avoid dealing with
noun
verb
- cause to unlearn
- cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to unlearn; to make (someone) forget something they have been taught, or recognize it as erroneous, etc.
- (transitive) To cause (something previously learned) to be forgotten, or recognized as an error, etc.
verb
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
noun
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- (video games, countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
verb
- To not forget (to do something required)
- To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
- To memorize; to put something into memory.
- (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.
- (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.
- To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
- (rare) Alternative form of re-member.
- To convey greetings from.
- (transitive) To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony.
- recapture the past; indulge in memories
- mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
- show appreciation to
- exercise, or have the power of, memory
- mention favorably, as in prayer
- call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- keep in mind for attention or consideration
verb
- conform one's action or practice to
- hold and prevent from leaving
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To restrain.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
verb
- conform one's action or practice to
- follow with the eyes or the mind
- show respect towards
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
- make mention of
- watch attentively
- observe with care or pay close attention to
- stick to correctly or closely
- (intransitive) To comment on something; to make an observation.
- (transitive) To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
- (transitive) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
- (transitive) To take note of and celebrate (a holiday or similar occurrence), to keep; to follow (a type of time or calendar reckoning).