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noun
- A general description of some subject.
- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
- A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- A setline or trotline.
verb
adj
noun
- One who prefers to learn by forming an overview of the topic.
- A believer in, or practitioner of, holism; one who believes that a topic of study cannot be fully understood by studying the parts, or who studies by considering the whole.
- One who advocates studying society as a whole, and who consistently interprets the actions of individuals in that context.
noun
- Topic; subject.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
adj
- Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
- Coming from in front.
- Placed at the top or the front.
- Foremost in rank or importance.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
prep
- Introduces its subject matter.
- Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
- Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
- Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
- Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
- Often used without the hour
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).
- Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
- Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
- Indicates a given part.
- Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
- Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
- Used to indicate the material or substance used.
- Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.}}
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
- Denotes the number of minutes before the hour;Before (the hour); to.
- During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
- From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
- Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
- Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
- Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
- Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
- Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
- Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
- Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
- Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
- Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
- Forming the "objective genitive".
- Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
- Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
- Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
- Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
- For (a given length of time).
- Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).}}
adj
- Relating to a particular topic or subject.
- Relating to a topic or subject of current interest.
- Arranged according to topic or theme; thematic.
- Applied to a localized part of the body.
- Local to a particular place
- Applied externally (to the surface of the skin or eye).
noun
- A joke dealing with current events or topical subjects.
- A postage stamp depicting a particular theme or subject (such as birds or trains), potentially sought out by topical stamp collectors.
- A substance, especially a medication, applied externally (to the surface of the skin or eye).
- A topical anaesthetic.
noun
- The details; particulars.
- A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
- Specification
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
adj
- of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
- similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- Hyponyms: monospecific, multispecific, oligospecific, paucispecific
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
- pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- special, distinctive or unique.
- being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
- explicit or definite.
noun
- a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic
- a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
- an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse
- (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur
noun
- In general
- A filk song written as a parody of, or in the form of and with reference to, another song (which need not itself be a filk song). Compare verb transitive sense.
- Filk music.
verb
- To participate in a filk circle, including singing along.
- To perform filk music.
- To write a parody of (a song).
adj
verb
- To consider a subject.
- To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
- To have a certain weight.
- To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
- To determine the weight of an object.
- Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
- To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
- To weigh anchor.
- To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
- To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
noun
- Subject.
- A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
- The music of a movie or play.
- In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.
- A bribe paid to a police officer.
- An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
- A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
- A robbery.
- The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
- A weight of twenty pounds.
- The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
- An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
- A prostitute's client.
- A sexual conquest.
- Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
- The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
- An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
- Twenty, 20.
- The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other.
intj
verb
- To extract a bribe.
- To earn points in a game.
- To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
- To win money by gambling.
- To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.
- To obtain something desired.
- To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
- To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
- To acquire or gain.
- To obtain a sexual favor.
verb
noun
- An introductory text on any subject, particularly basic concepts.
- A layer of such a substance.
- A prayer or devotional book intended for laity, initially an abridgment of the breviary and manual including the hours of the Virgin Mary, 15 gradual and 7 penitential psalms, the litany, the placebo and dirige forming the office of the dead, and the commendations.
- Any of various similar works issued in England for private prayer in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer.
- An elementary school class; an elementary school student. (No longer used.)
- A molecule which initiates the synthesis of an enzyme, (especially) a single-stranded nucleic acid molecule which initiates DNA replication.
- A pheromone which interacts first with the endocrine system.
- Any substance or device, such as priming wire or blasting cap, used to ignite gunpowder or other explosive.
- A children's book intended to teach literacy: how to read, write, and spell.
- A layer of makeup that goes beneath the foundation; undermakeup.
- A substance used to prime wood, metal, etc. in preparation for painting.
- A device used to prime an internal combustion engine with gasoline, (especially) in airplanes.
- A person who prunes trees.
verb
adj
- Of a topic, only loosely related to a main topic.
- Straight; not horizontally curved.
- Touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point.
noun
- A function of an angle that gives the ratio of the sine to the cosine, in either the real or complex numbers. Symbols: tan, tg.
- A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.
- A small metal blade in a clavichord that strikes the strings to produce sound.
- A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.
- A visual interaction between two or more lines or edges that creates a perceived relationship between them, often in a way that the artist did not intend.
prep_phrase
noun
- Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
- An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
- An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
- Something which is real.
- A wrongful or criminal deed.
- Something actual as opposed to invented.
- Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
intj
noun
- A particular area of study.
- A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
- That of which something is stated.
- An actor; one who takes action.
- A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
verb
- To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave.
- To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
adj
verb
- To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
- To be broadcast.
- To broadcast (a television show etc.).
- To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
- To ignore (a person).
- To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.
noun
- understood as a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
- The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near vacuum of outer space.
- understood as a particular local substance with supposed effects on human health.
- A song, especially a solo; an aria.
- A jump in which one becomes airborne.
- A feeling or sense.
- The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere
- A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
- Nothing; absence of anything.
- Publicity.
- A breeze; a gentle wind.
- A television or radio signal; (by extension) media broadcasts in general.
- An air conditioner or the processed air it produces.
- understood as one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
- Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
noun
- Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
- The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
- The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
- A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
- The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
- Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
- A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography
- The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
prep
- Investigating the subject (of).
- After the start of.
- Interested in or attracted to.
- Against, especially with force or violence.
- Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
- To or towards the inside of.
- Indicates transition into another form or substance.
- To or towards the region of.
- Indicates division or the creation of subgroups or sections.
noun
- A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
- A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.
- The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
- A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
- A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
- The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
- The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
- A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.
- A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome
- A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
- An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
- Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
- A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.
- A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
- The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
- Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
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