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noun
- a fundamental principle or practice
- anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
- a prominent supporter
- a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
- (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
noun
- A fundamental rule or principle.
- The principle that one should treat other people in the manner in which one would want to be treated by them.
- A method of statutory interpretation, whereby a judge will deviate from a literal interpretation of the law to the extent necessary to circumvent obvious absurdities or (sometimes) conclusions repugnant to public policy.
noun
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- Travel by walking.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The bottom edge of a sail.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
- The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- The globular lower domain of a protein.
- The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- Foot soldiers; infantry.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
verb
adv
noun
- A method or direction of proceeding.
- A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
- Pathology.
- A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
- A metaphorical course or route; progress.
- A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
- A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.
- A course taken.
- A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
- A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
verb
noun
- An exemplar of a concept.
- The individual who is the focus of a study or review, when the study or review is based on that individual's interactions with others.
- The central or most important element of something; a focal element.
- A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals.
- An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic.
- A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system.
- A major point of interest; an attraction.
adj
noun
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- a road leading up to a private house
- the trait of being highly motivated
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
verb
- operate or control a vehicle
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- cause to move back by force or influence
- compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
- push, propel, or press with force
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- have certain properties when driven
- work as a driver
- move by being propelled by a force
- urge forward
- proceed along in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- (hunting) search for game
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
noun
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something
- a justification for something existing or happening
- any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
- a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
verb
noun
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a race between candidates for elective office
- several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)
- an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa)
verb
noun
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
- a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- a euphemism for defecation
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
- the act of changing the location of something
noun
noun
- a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle
- a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
- directions for making something
- a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements
- something regarded as a normative example
- a liquid food for infants
- (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems
verb
- To make a premise.
- To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
- To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
- To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
noun
- Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
- A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
- A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
- The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.
- Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
noun
noun
- A basis or foundation.
- A move in which the gymnast places both hands on the mat with the top of the head about 6 inches in front, pushes off with the hands while flipping the legs overhead, and lands on the feet.
- A fountainhead; a source.
- A spring that sits at the top of a mechanism, pushing the internal parts inward.
verb
verb
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
- To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
noun
noun
noun
- A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour.
- A plan or explanation to guide one in setting standards or determining a course of action.
- A light line, used in lettering, to help align the text.
- He considered the Ten Commandments more as a guideline than a requirement.
verb
- To put in action or motion.
- To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
- To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
- To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
- To move to and fro.
- To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
- To compete against, in a game.
- To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
- To produce music using a musical instrument.
- To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
- To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
- (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
- To gamble.
- To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- To produce music.
- To act or perform (a play).
- To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
- To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
- To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
noun
- A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- The conduct, or course, of a game.
- A short sequence of action within a game.
- An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- A theatrical performance featuring actors.
noun
- A suggestion about a course of action.
- The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production.
verb
- To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action.
- To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm.
- To direct a group of animals.
- To direct a conversation.
- To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
- To castrate (a male calf).
- To direct or send an object into a specific place
- To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action.
noun
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
- A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
- A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called a cannon.
- Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
- The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
- In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
- A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
- A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
noun
- That which directs or orientates something.
- A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
- A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
- The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
- A member of a board of directors.
- One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).
noun
- A fundamental element; a basic principle.
- An axiom.
- Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.
- A requirement; a prerequisite.
verb
- To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
- To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
adj
noun
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- The utmost degree.
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.
- A quantity of money.
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
- An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
verb
adj
- Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
- Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
- Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
- Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
noun
noun
- A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A keepsake.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- A tally.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
adj
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- He was hired as the company's token black person.
- Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
verb
adv
adj
- Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.
- Light fixtures used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.
- Being likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation; able to be put to use.
- Of a prop: having some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
- Of a person, having skills or knowledge that are practical.
noun
- A prop that has some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
- A light fixture used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.
- A part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability
- Laboratory experiment, test or investigation
noun
- The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.
- The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
- The act of determining the relations of an object, such as genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification
- A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part
- The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.
- The addition of a distinguishing feature to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent.
- Bringing to an end; termination; limit.
- The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.
- Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
- The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.
- That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.
verb
- To direct or guide along a desired course.
- To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
- To make or cut a channel or groove in.
- To serve as a medium for.
noun
- A distribution channel
- The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
- The navigable part of a river.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
- A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
- The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
- The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
noun
- A basic conceptual structure.
- The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
- The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
noun
- an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- a military unit or region under the control of a single officer
- the power or authority to command
- availability for use
- a position of highest authority
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
verb
noun
- The act of instituting something.
- Any long established and respected place or business.
- A custom or practice of a society or community.
- The building or buildings which house such an organization.
- A person long established in a place, position, or field.
- A mental institution.
- A long established and respected organization, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work.
- The act by which a bishop commits a cure of souls to a priest.
noun
- A strategy or maneuver with a similar intention.
- A similar situation in other ball games, such as lacrosse, indoor soccer, rugby, and cricket.
- Tactics used to magnify power or influence.
- A situation where a team has a numerical advantage on the ice due to one or more penalties given to the opposing team.
- A play used to move the stones to the side of the sheet.
noun
- an immediate objective
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
- the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- a rightful concern or responsibility
- the volume of commercial activity
- business concerns collectively
- customers collectively
- incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
noun
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
- The background of the shield.
- An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal
- The extent of a given perception.
- A region containing a particular mineral.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
- A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
- A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- The background of the flag.
- The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- The outfield.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
- All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
verb
- To answer; to address.
- To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- To execute research (in the field).
- To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- To deploy in the field.
- The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
- To defeat.
- To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
adj
noun
- A regulating principle.
- A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
- A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
- A normal condition or state of affairs.
- A regulation, law, guideline.
- An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
- A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
- The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
verb
noun
- An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.
- A form of legislative act addressed to the member states. The directive binds the member state to reach certain objectives in their national legislation.
- The directive case.
- An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force.
- A construct in source code that indicates how it should be processed but is not necessarily part of the program to be run.
adj
noun
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.
- A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
- An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
noun
- A method or way of organizing or planning.
- A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
- A set of alters, or the multiple (“the individual with multiple personalities due to, for example, a dissociative personality disorder”) who contains them.
- Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
- A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
- A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.
- A planetary system; a set of planets orbiting a star or star system
- A set of rules for a tabletop roleplaying game.
- A comprehensive and logically organized set of propositions or philosophical beliefs.
- A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
- A set of body organs having a particular function.
verb
- To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- To set up; to install; to instate.
- To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- To furnish or supply with plants.
- To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- To place in the ground.
noun
- Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
- A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
- The combination of process and actuator.
- A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
- An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
noun
- The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
- A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
- An old card game.
verb
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
- To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
- To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
- To express something in a certain manner.
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- To place something somewhere.
- To attach or attribute; to assign.
- To exercise a put option.
- To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
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