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noun
- A decision or judgement.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- A cry or shout.
- A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- Need; necessity.
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- The act of calling to the other batsman.
verb
- To require, demand.
- To scold.
- To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- To request, summon, or beckon.
- To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- To predict.
- To contact by telephone.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- To name or refer to.
- To cry or shout.
- To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- To stop at a station or port.
- To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- To declare in advance.
- To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- To demand repayment of a loan.
- To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
noun
- A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- A decision point.
- In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- The crotch.
- A tuning fork.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
- The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A forklift.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
verb
- To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- To kick someone in the crotch.
- To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- To bale a shaft dry.
- To shoot into blades, as corn does.
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noun
- An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
- A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture.
- Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.
- A point of transition.
- A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
- A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
- A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.
- A sharp point or pointed end.
verb
noun
- An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
- One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
- Anything that can be chosen.
- The power to choose.
- Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
- The best or most preferable part.
adj
intj
verb
- To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
- To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
- To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
- To select and take or approve.
- To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
verb
- To reach a decision.
- Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen.
- To return from an elevated state of consciousness or emotion.
- To rain.
- To decrease.
- To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.
- To be demolished.
- To be passed through time.
- To descend, fall down, collapse.
verb
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To direct; to counsel; to instruct
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To step off base and move towards the next base.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- Lead climb.
- To produce (with to).
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- To place leads between the lines of.
- To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To have the highest interim score in a game.
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
adj
noun
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- bullets; ammunition.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A lode.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
noun
- A choice; ability to choose.
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
verb
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
noun
- A determination to do something; a fixed decision.
- It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.
- Determination; will power.
- An act of resolving something; resolution.
verb
- To make a firm decision to do something.
- To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
- To find a solution to (a problem).
- To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
- To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
- To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
- To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
- To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
- To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
- To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
- To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
- To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
- To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
noun
- The act of making a choice; selection.
- Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
- Something picked or pulled out.
- Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
- The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
- The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
- A gathering to pick fruit.
- Dabbing in stoneworking.
noun
- A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
- One of the divisions of instructions
- A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
- A military subdivision of a country
- A specified aspect or quality.
- A part, portion, or subdivision.
- One of the principal divisions of executive government
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- For the option or decision of.
- Until.
- Incumbent upon; the obligation of; the duty of.
- Considering all members of an equivalence class the same.
- Within the authority or jurisdiction of.
- Doing; involved in.
- As much as; no more than.
- Next to; near; towards; as far as.
- Ready for.
- Capable of.
- Willing to participate in.
adj
adj
- Having good judgment in decision-making.
- Capable of rational conduct and thus morally accountable for one's behavior.
- Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
- Having the duty of taking care of something; answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
- Answerable to (a superior).
- Involving important duties; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
- Being a primary cause of a situation or action and thus able to be blamed or credited for it.
- In honor shame culture and patronage, the patron of the entity denoted by the prepositional phrase's compliment AKA object, the entity being its client. In this context the patron is usually being described analogously to a rump state that would govern the client, functioning as though it were a complaints department and a disciplinary apparatus by getting involved in any disputes involving the client, e.g. by acid attacking its own client or by taking revenge against the client's accuser.
noun
noun
- A decision reached after careful thought.
- The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
- The outcome or result of a process or act.
- In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
- An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
- The end, finish, close or last part of something.
verb
noun
- something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
- a line leading to a place or point
- the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves
- a general course along which something has a tendency to develop
- the act of managing something
- a message describing how something is to be done
- the act of setting and holding a course
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- the concentration of attention or energy on something
verb
- To favor or decide in favor of something.
- To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
- To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
- To give a plumper (kind of vote).
- To give (a vote), as a plumper.
- To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
- To grow plump; to swell out.
noun
adj
- Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
- Fat.
- Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
adv
noun
- a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together
- the trait of being resolute
- finding a solution to a problem
- analysis into clear-cut components
- (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture
- the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung)
- (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
noun
- Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
- Importance, claim to notice, regard.
- The tendency to consider others.
- The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
- A payment or other recompense for something done.
- A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
noun
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap
- a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
- a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the act of blocking
- termination of operations
verb
noun
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- a community of people smaller than a town
- a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
- the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
- an area where a group of families live together
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
verb
noun
- anything that contributes causally to a result
- an abstract part of something
- one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer
- a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
- any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
- an independent variable in statistics
- (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity
verb
- To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
noun
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- The model number of a device; a device model.
- A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game.
- One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- Attention.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- A characteristic feature.
- A written character or sign.
- A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
noun
- A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.
- Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject; analysis.
- Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
- Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
- A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
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