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verb
- To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
- To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- To define the scope of something.
- To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
- To examine under a microscope.
- To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
noun
- The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
- A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
- The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
- Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
- Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.
- A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
noun
- A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
- A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
- A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
- The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.
verb
- To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
- To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
- To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
- To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
noun
- The cursor.
- Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
- A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.
- (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
- Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.
- A small cushion for a woman's hair.
- A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
- A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
- A quiet or shy person.
- A facial hematoma or black eye.
- A match used in firing guns or blasting.
verb
noun
- A brief or cursory look.
- An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
- Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
- A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
- A deflection.
- Glance coal.
- A sudden flash of light or splendour.
verb
- To look briefly (at something).
- To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
- A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.
- To sparkle.
- To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
- To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
- To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
- To graze at a surface.
noun
- A cursory reading, skipping the details.
- Skim milk.
- That which is skimmed off.
- The act of skimming.
- Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
adj
verb
- To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
- To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
- To read quickly, skipping some detail.
- To throw an object so it bounces on water.
- To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
- To ricochet.
- To hasten along with superficial attention.
- To become coated over.
- To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk.
- To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
- To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
- To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
- To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
verb
- To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle)
- To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
- To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- To commit robbery or theft.
- To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
noun
verb
- To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
- To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
- To read with an electronic device.
- To look about for; to look over quickly.
- To conform to a metrical structure.
- To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
- To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
- To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
noun
noun
- something that offers basic information or instruction
- someone employed to conduct others
- someone who shows the way by leading or advising
- a model or standard for making comparisons
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
verb
noun
- That which one browses through; something to read.
- Young shoots and twigs.
- Fodder for cattle and other animals.
verb
- To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
- To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
- To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
- To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
noun
- The room where a scene is reviewed.
- The review process that takes place in a sweat box.
- A small overheated cell or room used for solitary confinement or torture.
- A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty.
- Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco
- A jail cell.
- A compartment in a police van to hold a prisoner being transported.
noun
noun
noun
noun
- A visual component that displays a horizontal series of items one at a time.
- A tilting match or tournament accompanied by games, shows, and allegorical performances.
- An equestrian discipline in which groups of riders make various formations.
- A continuously revolving device for item delivery.
- A merry-go-round (type of ride on rotating platform).
- The rotating glass plate in a microwave oven.
verb
noun
- a visual presentation showing how something works
- a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view
- a show of military force or preparedness
- a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature)
- proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion
noun
verb
- examine someone's knowledge of something
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
- show a certain characteristic when tested
- achieve a certain score or rating on a test
- determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
- undergo a test
noun
- trying something to find out about it
- any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc
- a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge
- the act of undergoing testing
- the act of testing something
- a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
noun
- A program for viewing and editing.
- Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
- A monitor lizard.
- One of a class of relatively small armored warships 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.
- A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
- A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
- 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 the several tools successively into position.
- A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
- A monitor nozzle.
verb
noun
- A changing visual display.
- A late 19th or early 20th century device for duplicating documents that use colored ink, consisting of a tray with a rubbery substance that takes an impression of the document and then transfers it onto blank sheets of paper.
- A device for projecting the colorful patterns produced by a kaleidoscope.
noun
- A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
- One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
- Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
- The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
- A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
- A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
adj
verb
noun
- A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
- A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
- A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
- Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
- A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
verb
noun
- The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
- A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- A disguise; concealment.
verb
- To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- To present publicly (on the screen).
- To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
- To fit with a screen.
- To shelter or conceal.
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
noun
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
adj
adv
verb
noun
intj
- Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task.
- Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
- Used to declare "You've just made my point!" or "My point exactly!"
verb
- To play the game of bingo.
- To play all of one's seven tiles in one move in the game of Scrabble, earning a score bonus.
- To give the winning cry of "bingo!" in a game.
- To return to base.
adj
noun
- A similar game or amusement in which participants tick off themed words, phrases or pictures as these are called out, or as they are mentioned, for example during a speech or performance
- A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
- A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played, awarding a score bonus.
- A win in such a game.
noun
- A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.
- The act of surveying; a general view.
- The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface.
- A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions of a group of people.
- A measured plan and description of any portion of country.
- A district for the collection of customs under a particular officer.
- An examination of the opinions of a group of people.
- An auction at which a farm is let for a lease for lives.
verb
- To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook
- To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurements, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry
- To investigate the opinions, experiences, etc., of people by asking them questions; to conduct a survey; to administer a questionnaire.
- To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
- To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.
- To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of
adj
noun
- A drawing or diagram conveying information.
- A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
- A number, an amount.
- A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
- A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
- The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
- A figure of speech.
- The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
- A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
- A numeral.
- A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
- Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
- The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
- A shape.
- Any complex dance moveᵂ.
verb
- To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
- To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
- To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
- To enter into; to be a part of.
- To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
- To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- To embellish.
- To come to understand.
- To be reasonable.
noun
- an item of information that is typical of a class or group
- a person who represents others
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- a member of the United States House of Representatives
adj
- serving to represent or typify
- being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives
adj
verb
noun
- A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future); a chronology.
- An individual universe or reality, especially a parallel/alternate one in which events differ from actual history, or differ from the established canon of a fictional world.
- A schedule of activities; a timetable.
noun
- A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
- A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.
- The process of assembling or bringing together.
- A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.
- A gathering of people.
noun
- Thorough inspection of a situation or a case.
- Intense study of someone or something.
- A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
- An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
- An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
noun
- A detailed list of all of the items on hand.
- The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.)
- The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.
- The process of producing or updating such a list.
- A space containing the items available to a character, especially that in a video game, for immediate use.
verb
noun
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- A person.
- A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- A corpse.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
- A bodysuit.
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- Any physical object or material thing.
- The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- Substance; physical presence.
- What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
verb
noun
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
verb
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
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