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noun
- An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- Something to be read; a written work.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
verb
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- To read work(s) written by (a named author).
- Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
- To consist of certain text.
- Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
noun
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- an instant of time
- the object of an activity
- a V shape
- a very small circular shape
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- an outstanding characteristic
- sharp end
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a wall socket
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
verb
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- be oriented
- direct into a position for use
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- sail close to the wind
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- be positionable in a specified manner
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- give a point to
- repair the joints of bricks
intj
- Exclamation for drama or emphasis (often poetic).
- A word to precede an added comment or afterthought.
- A word to precede an offhand or annoyed remark.
- Expression of surprise.
- An invocation or address (similar to the vocative in languages with noun declension), often with a term of endearment.
- Expression of wonder, amazement, or awe.
- Expression of understanding, affirmation, recognition, or realization.
- Expression of pain. See ouch.
- Expression of mild scepticism.
- A word to mark a spoken phrase as imaginary.
- Space filler or extra syllable, especially in (popular) music.
noun
- the letter O, o (more commonly spelled o)
- An utterance of oh; a spoken expression of surprise, acknowledgement, etc.
- the digit 0 (especially in representations of speech)
verb
noun
- The use of sensational subject matter, style or methods, or the sensational subject matter itself; behavior, published materials, or broadcasts that are intentionally controversial, exaggerated, lurid, loud, or attention-grabbing. Especially applied to news media in a pejorative sense that they are reporting in a manner to gain audience or notoriety but at the expense of accuracy and professionalism.
- A theory of philosophy that all knowledge is ultimately derived from the senses.
noun
- An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- A water pipe.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- A telephone.
- A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- The character [[Unsupported titles/Vertical line#Translingual||]].
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- A man's penis.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
verb
- To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character ([[Unsupported titles/Vertical line#Translingual||]]) at the command line.
- To install or configure with pipes.
- To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- To dab moisture away from.
- To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- To have sexual intercourse with a female.
- To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
- To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- To invent or embellish (a story).
verb
- To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
- To become pink in color, to redden.
- Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
- Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
- To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
- To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- To turn (something) pink.
- To prick with a sword.
noun
- The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
- An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
- Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
- Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.
- The vagina or vulva.
adj
noun
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- An attempt; a go at something.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
adj
verb
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
- To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
verb
- To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
- To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.
- To take an oath that an assertion is true.
- To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
- To administer an oath to (a person).
- To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
adj
noun
verb
- To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
- To entice, tempt.
- To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
- To backcomb.
noun
verb
- To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- To turn out well; to be successful.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- To turn horizontally.
adj
noun
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A human face, a mug.
- A part; a portion.
- The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
- Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- A loaf of bread.
- A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
noun
- Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
- The act or tort of displaying such a statement publicly.
- A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.
- A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
- A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
verb
verb
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
verb
- To intentionally call attention to the improbable, incongruent, or clichéd nature of an element or situation featured in a work of fiction within the work itself.
- To wear an oversize top with skintight thigh-high boots and no leggings.
- To design or create lampshades.
- To adorn with one or more lampshades.
noun
noun
- An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
- Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
- The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
- Design; pattern.
- Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
verb
- To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
- To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
- To express by, or utter with, laughter.
- To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
noun
verb
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To tell off; to criticise.
noun
- An arousal.
- The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
verb
verb
- To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
- To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- To be worn by rubbing.
- To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- To fret and wear by rubbing.
- To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
noun
noun
- a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed
- an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole
- the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations
- the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'
- a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation
- a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud
noun
- An object of criticism or ridicule.
- A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- A bearing representing a buckler.
- The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
- A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- A goal or objective.
- The tenor of a metaphor.
- A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
- The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
verb
verb
- produce a literary work
- communicate or express by writing
- communicate (with) in writing
- write music
- mark or trace words or symbols on a surface
- record data on a computer
- write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
- create code, write a computer program
noun
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
- A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
verb
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- To urge with importunity; to press.
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
- To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- To percolate; to be filtered.
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
verb
adj
- Exhibiting behavior that is disconcerting or alarming, sometimes in an effort to impress or to troll others.
- Cool by virtue of being tough, dark, or badass.
- Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
- On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.
- Nervous, apprehensive.
- Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge.
- Sharp; having prominent edges.
verb
- To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
- To make nonsense of;
- To joke around, to waste time
intj
adj
- Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
- Nonsensical.
noun
- A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
- That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
- Something foolish.
- Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
- An untrue statement.
- A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
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