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noun
- The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
- Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
- A formula with no free variables.
verb
noun
- (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
- an electrical force linking atoms
- a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal
- a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
- a connection that fastens things together
- a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents
- the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
verb
verb
- To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
- To raise, as a siege.
- To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
- To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
- To draft someone into military service.
- To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
- To wage war.
noun
verb
- To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
- To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
- To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- To change by fine gradations.
- To pay a fine.
adv
- Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
- In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
- Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.
noun
- Something that is fine; fine particles.
- A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
- The end of a musical composition.
- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
- A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- Fine champagne; French brandy.
- The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
adj
- Of superior quality.
- Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
- Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
- Made of slender or thin filaments.
- Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
- An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
- Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
- Good-looking, attractive.
- Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
- Sunny and not raining.
- Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
noun
- A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
- A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
- A legal sentence.
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
verb
- To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).
- To justify; to give grounds for.
- To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).
- To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe strongly.
noun
- Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
- A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
- A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
- An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.
- Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
- Underclay in a coal mine.
- A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
- An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
verb
- To charge or convict (someone) of breaching the terms of a bail, probation, recognizance, etc.
- To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
- To make a breach in.
- To leap out of the water.
- To violate or break.
noun
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment
- A difference in opinions, social class etc.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence
noun
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
verb
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
adj
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
adv
noun
- Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
- Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- The entire set of something; all of something.
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- The action or an instance of sending something out
- A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
- Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
- Any question or situation to be resolved
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
verb
- To rush out, to sally forth.
- To deliver for use.
- To deliver by authority.
- To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
- To extend into, to open onto.
- To send out; to put into circulation.
- To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
noun
- A fine; a fee or monetary penalty incurred for breaking the law; usually for a minor offence such as a traffic violation.
- A creature magically summoned to do the summoner's bidding.
- A notice of an infringement of the law, usually incurring such a penalty; a citation or ticket.
- call, command, order
verb
noun
- A United States law, codified at 18 USC §3553(f), authorizing a judge to disregard mandatory minimum sentences for some criminals with few or no prior offenses.
- A relief valve set to open at a pressure below that at which a container (such as a boiler) would burst.
- Any mechanism offering relief from pressure or tension, e.g. emotionally.
verb
noun
noun
- Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
- The means by which something is physically attached.
- A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
- The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
- A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
- A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
- The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
- A dependence, especially a strong one.
noun
- A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
- Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
- A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.
verb
- To fail to keep an obligation.
- To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
- To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
- To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
adj
noun
- An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which he or she is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.
- A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
- Free and undeserved favour, especially of God; unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.
- In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.
- A grace note.
- Charming, pleasing qualities.
- Elegant movement; balance or poise.
- An act or decree of the governing body of an English university.
verb
noun
- A fee paid by a borrower in order to defer full repayment of a loan.
- A graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it.
- A target on the pinball table that is activated when the ball rolls over it.
- A road traffic accident in which a vehicle overturns.
- In the National or European lottery, the situation in which a jackpot that has not been won is carried over to the next week.
- The reinvestment of funds in a new issue of the same or similar investment.
- The process of incrementing, especially back to an initial value.
- A keyboard feature where each key is scanned independently, so that multiple simultaneous keypresses always register correctly.
- The sudden ignition of flammable gasses (produced by pyrolysis in an oxygen-poor environment) near the ceiling of a room or other enclosed space.
noun
- Open disrespect for or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body, typically punishable by such sanctions as a fine or incarceration.
- A particular act of open disrespect for or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law.
- A court order which, in the context of a court trial or hearing, declares a person or organization to have disobeyed or been disrespectful of the court's authority.
noun
- The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so.
- A player's expected share of the pot.
- Equality
- The body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery, which Court had extra-statutory discretion, and is now administered alongside the common law of Britain.
- Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".
- Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances.
- Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.
- Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets.
- A right which accrues to a party in a transaction because of the nature of the transaction itself, and which is exercisable upon a change of circumstances or conditions; in other words, an equitable claim.
verb
- To penalize.
- To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- To flick.
- To cause something to bounce.
- To bounce.
- To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- To call out audibly.
- To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
noun
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- Latency.
- A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
- A notification.
- A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
verb
- To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
- To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
- To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
- To hit or strike.
- To fire or reject.
- To mishit (a golf ball).
- To level up.
- To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
- To dash; to throw violently.
noun
noun
- A jail or prison term.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment or length of material.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
verb
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To pull tight.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To increase.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
verb
- To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).
- Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare oneself disqualified from trying a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- To object to (a judge, juror, or prosecutor) participating in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
adv
- Not leaving discretion to the judge to take into account additional factors that could rebut the judgment, deriving the qualification from the statute.
- Without determination by or involvement of extraneous factors; by its very nature.
- In a true or literal sense; as one would expect from the name or description.
- Being a thing that posits itself and is a principle of its own determination.
adj
adj
- Liable to the legal authority of (something).
- Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
- Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
- Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
- Willing to comply; easily led.
verb
- To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
- To ornament with something placed around it.
- To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
- To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
noun
- Cash.
- A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
- Something added for embellishment.
- Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
- A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
- Pewter vessels in general.
- Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
adj
- (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
- Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
- Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
- Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
- Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
- Below the horizon.
- Printed in subscript.
noun
noun
- A class of crime that can be charged as a lower penalty or a higher penalty, e.g. a crime punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony at the discretion of the prosecutor.
- A person who is undecided, and might go to either side.
- A small publicity notice which appears to float at eye level, being attached to a fixture by a flexible arm.
- The end of the roll in a roller mill for shaping steel.
- A sudden unexpected outburst of anger or rage; a tantrum.
- A fishing lure made to resemble a prey fish and that wobbles in the water; plug, minnow.
- A boiled leg of mutton.
- One who or that which wobbles.
- A case that could go either way depending on factors that cannot be controlled.
- A stone that rocks from side to side as it travels because it is not resting on its running surface.
verb
- To penalize for an infraction.
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To signal (an event).
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- To pave with flagstones.
- To weaken, become feeble.
- To set a program variable to true.
- To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
- To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
noun
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- The game of capture the flag.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc.
- In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- A signal flag.
- A slice of turf; a sod.
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