English words for '(phonetics) Preceding the initial.'
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noun
- (phonetics) Initialism of articulatory index.
- (artificial intelligence, countable and uncountable) Initialism of artificial intelligence.
- (nutrition) Initialism of adequate intake.
- (underwater diving) Initialism of air integration.
- (British airforce) Initialism of airborne intelligence (synonym for an early type of airborne radar).
- (education) Initialism of academic integrity.
- (linguistics, anthropology) Initialism of atavistic-idiosyncratic.
- Abbreviation of angiotensin I.
- (video games) The system that controls the behavior of enemies and non-player characters.
- (video games, countable) A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player.
- Initialism of amelogenesis imperfecta.
- (by extension, countable) A specific artificial intelligence program, such as the chatbot ChatGPT.
- (agriculture) Initialism of artificial insemination.
- Initialism of attitude indicator.
- (management) Initialism of action item.
- the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively
- the introduction of semen into the oviduct or uterus by some means other than sexual intercourse
- an agency of the United States Army responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders
adj
name
verb
noun
- Initialism of voice call.
- (UK, education) Initialism of voluntary controlled.
- Initialism of Victoria Cross.
- Post-nominal letters for a person who has been awarded the Victoria Cross.
- Abbreviation of vinylene carbonate.
- (education) Initialism of vice-chancellor.
- Initialism of venture capital.
- Initialism of voice chat.
- (US, military, historical) Initialism of Victor Charlie (“Vietcong”).
- (US, air force, aviation) Initialism of VIP cargo, a prefix code for very important persons transport aircraft.
- Initialism of venture capitalist.
verb
noun
- (phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
- (typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
- The first letter of a word or a name, especially of a person's full name (their initials).
- the first letter of a word (especially a person's name)
adj
verb
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of phonological form.
- (American football, fantasy football) Initialism of points for.
- Abbreviation of power failure; displayed by some household appliances after a power outage.
- (basketball) Initialism of power forward.
- (physics) Initialism of peak flow.
- Initialism of pilot flying, a pilot currently in control of the flight trajectory of the aircraft, as opposed to pilot monitoring.
- (basketball) Initialism of personal foul.
- (psychology) Initialism of psychometric function.
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of patrol fighter.
noun
- (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
- A setting about; a beginning.
- (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
- (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- the beginning or early stages
noun
adj
name
- (phonetics) Initialism of Americanist Phonetic Alphabet.
- (business) Initialism of American pale ale.
- (law) Initialism of Administrative Procedure Act.
- (business) Initialism of American Plywood Association.
- (historical) Initialism of American Protective Association: an anti-Catholic secret society established in 1887 by American Protestants.
- (psychology) Initialism of American Psychological Association.
- (healthcare) Initialism of American Psychiatric Association.
noun
noun
- (phonetics) Initialism of cardinal vowel.
- (philately) Initialism of catalog value.
- (pathology) Initialism of cytolytic vaginosis.
- (engineering) Initialism of constant velocity.
- (automotive) Initialism of commercial vehicle
- (nautical) Initialism of container vessel; a container ship
- Ellipsis of CV joint.
- Initialism of curriculum vitae.
- (nautical) Initialism of construction vessel
- (among vorarephiles) Initialism of cock vore.
- (military) Initialism of combat vehicle.
- (US, navy) aircraft carrier (“Cruiser Voler”), a diesel-powered warship launching and landing heavier than air flying vehicles (a nuclear-powered one is a CVN)
- (astronomy) Initialism of cataclysmic variable.
- Initialism of computer vision.
- (pathology) Initialism of coronavirus.
- Abbreviation of cellevision.
- (anime) Initialism of character's voice (“voice actor”).
- (business) Initialism of countervailing.
- (statistics) Initialism of cross-validation.
- a summary of your academic and work history
adj
name
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of part of speech.
- (law) Initialism of proof of service.
- (vulgar, of a person or thing) Initialism of piece of shit.
- (medicine) Initialism of peripheral oxygen saturation.
- Initialism of Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome.
- (retail) Initialism of point of sale or point of service.
- (computing) Initialism of proprietary operating system.
- (navigation, aviation) Initialism of position and orientation system.
phrase
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of Received Pronunciation.
- (physics) Initialism of radiation pressure.
- (roleplaying games) Initialism of roleplay.
- (pathology) Initialism of retinitis pigmentosa.
- Initialism of red pill.
- (analytical chemistry) Initialism of reverse-phase.
- (video games, ESRB) Initialism of rating pending.
- (computing) Initialism of relying party.
- (medicine) Initialism of rotationplasty.
name
verb
noun
adj
noun
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
name
noun
noun
- a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- intense adverse criticism
- an offensive move in a sport or game
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
- the act of attacking
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- strong criticism
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- (gaming) Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (audio) The amount of time taken for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (South India) Short for heart attack.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
- (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- (wine) The initial sensory impact of a wine.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
verb
- take the initiative and go on the offensive
- attack someone physically or emotionally
- launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
- begin to injure
- set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task
- attack in speech or writing
- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- (physical chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
adj
article
noun
num
prep
noun
- the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
- studies of the rules for forming admissible words
- the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
- the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
- (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
- (countable) The form and structure of something.
- (mathematics) Mathematical morphology.
- (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
- (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
- (countable) A description of the form and structure of something.
noun
- (phonetics) Ablaut.
- A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another.
- (music) A diatonic succession of chords.
- The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
- (music) A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
- (countable) A calibration marking.
- A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
- Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
- relative position in a graded series
- the act of arranging in grades
- a degree of ablaut
verb
noun
- (phonetics) Initialism of articulatory index.
- (artificial intelligence, countable and uncountable) Initialism of artificial intelligence.
- (nutrition) Initialism of adequate intake.
- (underwater diving) Initialism of air integration.
- (British airforce) Initialism of airborne intelligence (synonym for an early type of airborne radar).
- (education) Initialism of academic integrity.
- (linguistics, anthropology) Initialism of atavistic-idiosyncratic.
- Abbreviation of angiotensin I.
- (video games) The system that controls the behavior of enemies and non-player characters.
- (video games, countable) A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player.
- Initialism of amelogenesis imperfecta.
- (by extension, countable) A specific artificial intelligence program, such as the chatbot ChatGPT.
- (agriculture) Initialism of artificial insemination.
- Initialism of attitude indicator.
- (management) Initialism of action item.
- the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively
- the introduction of semen into the oviduct or uterus by some means other than sexual intercourse
- an agency of the United States Army responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders
adj
name
verb
noun
- Initialism of voice call.
- (UK, education) Initialism of voluntary controlled.
- Initialism of Victoria Cross.
- Post-nominal letters for a person who has been awarded the Victoria Cross.
- Abbreviation of vinylene carbonate.
- (education) Initialism of vice-chancellor.
- Initialism of venture capital.
- Initialism of voice chat.
- (US, military, historical) Initialism of Victor Charlie (“Vietcong”).
- (US, air force, aviation) Initialism of VIP cargo, a prefix code for very important persons transport aircraft.
- Initialism of venture capitalist.
verb
noun
- (phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
- (typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
- The first letter of a word or a name, especially of a person's full name (their initials).
- the first letter of a word (especially a person's name)
adj
verb
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of phonological form.
- (American football, fantasy football) Initialism of points for.
- Abbreviation of power failure; displayed by some household appliances after a power outage.
- (basketball) Initialism of power forward.
- (physics) Initialism of peak flow.
- Initialism of pilot flying, a pilot currently in control of the flight trajectory of the aircraft, as opposed to pilot monitoring.
- (basketball) Initialism of personal foul.
- (psychology) Initialism of psychometric function.
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of patrol fighter.
noun
- (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
- A setting about; a beginning.
- (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
- (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- the beginning or early stages
noun
adj
noun
- (phonetics) Initialism of cardinal vowel.
- (philately) Initialism of catalog value.
- (pathology) Initialism of cytolytic vaginosis.
- (engineering) Initialism of constant velocity.
- (automotive) Initialism of commercial vehicle
- (nautical) Initialism of container vessel; a container ship
- Ellipsis of CV joint.
- Initialism of curriculum vitae.
- (nautical) Initialism of construction vessel
- (among vorarephiles) Initialism of cock vore.
- (military) Initialism of combat vehicle.
- (US, navy) aircraft carrier (“Cruiser Voler”), a diesel-powered warship launching and landing heavier than air flying vehicles (a nuclear-powered one is a CVN)
- (astronomy) Initialism of cataclysmic variable.
- Initialism of computer vision.
- (pathology) Initialism of coronavirus.
- Abbreviation of cellevision.
- (anime) Initialism of character's voice (“voice actor”).
- (business) Initialism of countervailing.
- (statistics) Initialism of cross-validation.
- a summary of your academic and work history
adj
name
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of part of speech.
- (law) Initialism of proof of service.
- (vulgar, of a person or thing) Initialism of piece of shit.
- (medicine) Initialism of peripheral oxygen saturation.
- Initialism of Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome.
- (retail) Initialism of point of sale or point of service.
- (computing) Initialism of proprietary operating system.
- (navigation, aviation) Initialism of position and orientation system.
phrase
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of Received Pronunciation.
- (physics) Initialism of radiation pressure.
- (roleplaying games) Initialism of roleplay.
- (pathology) Initialism of retinitis pigmentosa.
- Initialism of red pill.
- (analytical chemistry) Initialism of reverse-phase.
- (video games, ESRB) Initialism of rating pending.
- (computing) Initialism of relying party.
- (medicine) Initialism of rotationplasty.
name
verb
noun
adj
noun
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
- a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- intense adverse criticism
- an offensive move in a sport or game
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
- the act of attacking
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- strong criticism
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- (gaming) Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (audio) The amount of time taken for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (South India) Short for heart attack.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
- (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- (wine) The initial sensory impact of a wine.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
verb
- take the initiative and go on the offensive
- attack someone physically or emotionally
- launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
- begin to injure
- set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task
- attack in speech or writing
- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- (physical chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
adj
noun
- the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
- studies of the rules for forming admissible words
- the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
- the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
- (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
- (countable) The form and structure of something.
- (mathematics) Mathematical morphology.
- (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
- (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
- (countable) A description of the form and structure of something.
noun
- (phonetics) Ablaut.
- A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another.
- (music) A diatonic succession of chords.
- The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
- (music) A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
- (countable) A calibration marking.
- A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
- Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
- relative position in a graded series
- the act of arranging in grades
- a degree of ablaut
verb
noun
- Initialism of voice call.
- (UK, education) Initialism of voluntary controlled.
- Initialism of Victoria Cross.
- Post-nominal letters for a person who has been awarded the Victoria Cross.
- Abbreviation of vinylene carbonate.
- (education) Initialism of vice-chancellor.
- Initialism of venture capital.
- Initialism of voice chat.
- (US, military, historical) Initialism of Victor Charlie (“Vietcong”).
- (US, air force, aviation) Initialism of VIP cargo, a prefix code for very important persons transport aircraft.
- Initialism of venture capitalist.