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noun
- A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
- A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
- The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
- An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
- The regions between the outfielders.
- A vacant space or time.
- A mountain or hill pass.
- A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
verb
noun
verb
- To come to a pause or an end; end.
- To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- To rely or depend on.
- To be or to put into a state of rest.
- To lean, lie, or lay.
- To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To sleep; slumber.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- To lie dormant.
- To stay, remain, be situated.
noun
- A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- Absence of motion.
- Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- A final position after death.
- A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- That which remains.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
noun
- A pause in continuity.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A fall or apostasy.
- An interval of time between events.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- memory lapse
verb
noun
- A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
- Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing.
- A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language.
- An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.
- A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
- A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
noun
- take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
verb
noun
- A brief interval.
- A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
- In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
- The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
verb
noun
- A break or interruption in an existing connection, continuum, or process; disconnection.
- A switch used to isolate a portion of an electrical circuit.
- A lack of connection or accord; a mismatch.
- The deliberate severing of ties with family, friends, etc. considered antagonistic towards Scientology.
verb
noun
- a pause for relaxation
- the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
- the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)
- (law) redress awarded by a court
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- assistance in time of difficulty
- a change for the better
- aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped
- the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)
- sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background
- the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged
noun
- A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
- A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
intj
- Said accompanying a vigorous attack.
- Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
- halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
verb
adj
noun
- Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler.
- That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
- A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.
- A person appointed or hired to fill a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire can be made; a temp.
verb
noun
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- the event of something ending
- the act of stopping something
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
verb
- come to a halt, stop moving
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop from happening or developing
- interrupt a trip
- cause to end
- prevent completion
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- render unsuitable for passage
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
intj
- Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
- Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
- Used as a greeting
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
adj
noun
- A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A source of supply.
- The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- A well drink.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- The cockpit of a sailboat.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
adv
- To a significant degree.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- Completely, fully.
- Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
verb
noun
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- A rhythm.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- A stroke; a blow.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
verb
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To hit; to strike.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
adj
intj
- Expression signifying a pause or hesitation.
- Expression used to imply meaning, rather than say it, such as when a person is embarrassed.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see you, know.
- Used as a rhetorical question to confirm agreement, knowing or understanding at the end of a statement.
- Used to introduce information.
intj
verb
- To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
- To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
- To make a hem.
- To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
noun
- In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
- A rim or margin of something.
- An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
- The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
noun
- A period of rest; time off.
- An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
- A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
- An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
- Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
- A definite period (of work or other activity).
- A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
- The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
- A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
- A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
verb
- To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
- To work in place of (someone).
- To constitute; to measure.
- To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
- To clarify; to explain in detail.
- Of letters: to compose (a word).
- To indicate that (some event) will occur.
- To rest from work for a time.
- To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
noun
- A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two half rests or one half of a breve rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is four beats.
- A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly below the line above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
adj
- Interrupted; not continuous.
- Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
- Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- Badly designed or implemented.
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- Split or ruptured.
- Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- Breached; violated; not kept.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- Uneven.
verb
- To make a stop; to pause; with at.
- To inspect; to examine.
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
- To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
- To verify or compare with a source of information.
- To leave in safekeeping.
- To control, limit, or halt.
- To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
- To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- To mark with a check pattern.
noun
- The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
- A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
- A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- An inspection or examination.
- A small chink or crack.
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
adj
noun
- A sudden break.
- A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- A tool used by riveters.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- Something of no value.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- Something that is easy or effortless.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- briskness; vigour; energy; decision
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A photograph; a snapshot.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- A newsflash.
- jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
verb
- To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- To say abruptly or sharply.
- To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
- To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- To give way abruptly and loudly.
- To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- To speak abruptly or sharply.
- To misfire.
- To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
intj
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
- Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
adj
noun
- An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
- A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
- An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
- An edited piece of media, especially video footage.
- A change to the text of a document.
verb
- To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
- To alter a photograph or recording of sound or video.
- To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
- To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
- To assemble a film by cutting and splicing raw footage.
- To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
- To be the editor of a publication.
- To change a text, or a document.
noun
- A cadence linking the end of a verse to the beginning of the next.
- The act of turning to face in the other direction.
- A series of sketches of a character as seen from different angles.
- A turnabout; a reversal of circumstances.
- Synonym of goback
- The time required to carry out a task.
- The notation for the addition of a grace note above then below a given note.
- The scheduled shutdown of an industrial plant, such as an oil rig, for maintenance and testing.
- A contractual provision by which, if the studio elects to abandon a film project, the producer has a limited period in which to sell it elsewhere.
- Preparations for takeoff, such as loading and servicing.
- A reversal of policy.
noun
- A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
- A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
- A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
- Delay; latency.
- One who lags; that which comes in last.
- A bird, the greylag.
- The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- A prisoner, a criminal.
verb
- To respond slowly.
- To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
- To cause to lag; to slacken.
- To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer).
adj
noun
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