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noun
- A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
- One who gatekeeps.
- In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
- A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
- A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
noun
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- A vessel having a specified number of masts.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- A male dominant.
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- A skilled artist.
- Someone who employs others.
- A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- A person holding such a degree.
- The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- An expert at something.
- A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
adj
verb
noun
- A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
- A state of caution; posture of defence.
- Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
- Either of two offensive positions between the centre and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.
- A player playing a position named guard.
- A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or centre.
- A squad responsible for protecting something.
- The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
- A watchchain.
- The aircraft emergency frequency, a radio frequency reserved for emergency communications, typically 121.5MHz for civilian use.
- A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
- A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- A garda; a police officer.
- The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
- A ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their legs.
- A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
- An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
verb
- To fasten by binding; to gird.
- To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
- To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
- To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
- To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
noun
- Somebody who controls or manages (e.g. a system).
- A player who runs for a batsman who is too injured to run; he is dressed exactly as the injured batsman, and carries a bat.
- Anyone sent on an errand or with communications, especially for a bank (or, historically, a foot soldier responsible for carrying messages during war).
- A short sling with a carabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt or other protection such as a nut or friend.
- An automobile; a working or driveable automobile.
- A competitor in a poker tournament.
- A person or vessel who runs blockades or engages in smuggling. (Especially used in combination, e.g. gunrunner).
- Part of a shoe that is stitched to the bottom of the upper so it can be glued to the sole.
- A speedrunner.
- A long, narrow carpet for a high traffic area such as a hall or stairs.
- An employee of a sports agent who tries to recruit possible player clients for the agent.
- A quick escape away from a scene.
- A type of soft-soled shoe originally intended for runners.
- A rope to increase the power of a tackle.
- A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete.
- Any entrant, person or animal (especially a horse), for a race or any competition; a candidate for an election.
- An idea or plan that has potential to be adopted or put into operation.
- A part of a cigarette that is burning unevenly.
- A baserunner.
- One who runs away; a deserter or escapee.
- The blade of an ice skate.
- The channel or strip on which a drawer is opened and closed.
- Part of a mechanism which allows something to be pulled out for maintenance.
- The curved base of a rocking chair.
- In saddlery, a loop of metal through which a rein is passed.
- In molding, a channel cut in a mold.
- The rotating-stone of a grinding-mill.
- The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
- A tool in which lenses are fastened for polishing.
- A long stolon sent out by a plant (such as strawberry), in order to root new plantlets, or a plant that propagates by using such runners.
- A running gag
- A part of an apparatus that moves quickly.
- A smooth strip on which a sledge runs.
- A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.
- A restaurant employee responsible for taking food from the kitchens to the tables.
- A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
- A person (from one or the other team) who runs out onto the field during the game to take verbal instructions from the coach to the players. A runner mustn't interfere with play, and may have to wear an identifying shirt to make clear his or her purpose on the field.
- A strip of fabric used to decorate or protect a table or dressing table.
noun
- A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
- A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
- Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
- A gun.
- A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- An obnoxious or uptight person.
verb
- To equip with tools.
- To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
- To work very hard.
- To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
- To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
- To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
noun
- One who controls something.
- An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
- The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
- The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
- Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
- In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views.
- A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
- A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
- The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
noun
- A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
- A police rank used in Commonwealth countries, ranking above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
- A janitor.
- The head of a Sunday school.
- The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same. Often abbreviated "super".
- In some Protestant churches, a clergyman having the oversight of the clergy of a district.
adj
noun
- Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
- A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
- A swain; a rustic male lover.
- The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
- A male sheep tender
- A German Shepherd.
- A male pastor
- A male watcher/guardian/guider/leader
verb
noun
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
- a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers
noun
- Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
- A computer.
- A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
- An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
- Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
- The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
- A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
verb
noun
- A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
- A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
- The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
- Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Legal validity.
- Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- Synonym of police force
- Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- A waterfall or cascade.
verb
- To compel (someone or something) to do something.
- To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- To violate (a woman); to rape.
- To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
noun
verb
adj
- marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity
- concerning things deeply private and personal
- having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere
- having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship
- used euphemistically to refer to the genitals
- involved in a sexual relationship
- innermost or essential
- thoroughly acquainted through study or experience
noun
adj
noun
- A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
- In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
- A process responsible for managing other processes.
- A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
noun
- A person, group, concept, etc., which is associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary; a supporter.
- Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature.
- A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.
- A person who, or organization which, supports a demographic group subject to discrimination and/or misrepresentation but is not a member of the group; specifically (LGBT), a person who is not a member of the LGBT+ community but is supportive of it.
- A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.
- An organism which is related to another organism through common evolutionary origin; specifically, a species which is closely related to another species, usually within the same family.
verb
- To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.
- Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim.
- To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else.
- Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature.
adj
- Directed to someone with authority over the person, so as to avoid requiring the approval of the person himself or herself.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, head.
- More complex or confusing than one can understand; beyond one’s comprehension.
- More than one can handle; too much (especially in over one's head).
- Performing at a level greatly superior to one's usual level of performance.
noun
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- A seafront or coastal promenade.
- The beginning.
- A field of activity.
- The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- The direction of the enemy.
- The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
adj
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one).
- Located at or near the front.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
verb
- To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- To appear before.
- To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- To face, be opposite to.
noun
- Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper.
- Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment.
- A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen.
- An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.
- An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of pesticide products, but has little or no pesticidal activity itself.
adj
noun
- Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
- A monitor lizard.
- One of a class of relatively small armored warships with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat.
- A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
- A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
- A program for viewing and editing.
- A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring the several tools successively into position.
- A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
- A monitor nozzle.
verb
adj
- Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
- Not publicly known; not open; secret.
- Not shared with another patient.
- Not accessible by the public.
- Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.
- Secretive; reserved.
- Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.
- Not traded by the public.
- Not in governmental office or employment.
verb
noun
verb
- Of a person: to control or dominate (oneself or someone, or one's own or someone's heart, mind, etc.).
- To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.
- To dominate sexually; to have sexual intercourse with.
- To have control or possession of, but not to own (a chattel or an interest in land).
- Of an idea, thought, etc.: to dominate (someone's mind); to strongly influence.
- To inhabit or occupy a place.
- Of a supernatural entity, especially one regarded as evil: to take control of (an animal or person's body or mind).
- To dominate (a person) sexually; to have sexual intercourse with (a person).
noun
- Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.
- A gallery.
- An instance of pawning something.
- A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
- The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
- The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.
verb
noun
- Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
- A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
- A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
- A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
- A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
- A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
verb
noun
- One who handles something (especially manually) or someone.
- An advisor or manager to a person occupying a position or office to which the speaker believes the holder does not possess the typical qualifications and/or experience.
- A subroutine that handles a particular situation such as an event or exception.
- A controller, trainer, someone who handles a specified thing, animal or person (especially a prizefighter).
verb
- To control or manipulate via a cabal or secret political organization.
- To encode using wordplay such as acrostics or ciphers.
- To use cabalistic language or perform cabalistic magic.
- To engage in politics as part of a cabal.
- To study and interpret the Kabballah.
- To decode or demystify.
- To make mysterious; to entangle or obscure with the trappings of religion, mysticism, or superstition.
- To encode as a Haskell package with the ".cabal" extension, which can then be installed and interpreted using the cabal command.
noun
- A person who is preferred or trusted above all others.
- A short curl dangling over the temples, fashionable in the reign of Charles II.
- A contestant or competitor thought most likely to win.
- A bookmark in a web browser.
- A person or thing who enjoys special regard or favour.
verb
- To favour.
- To bookmark.
- To add to one's list of favourite items on a website that allows users to compile such lists.
adj
noun
- One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
- Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
- Someone called to give evidence in a court.
- One who is called upon to witness an event or action, such as a wedding or the signing of a document.
- Something that serves as evidence; a sign or token.
verb
noun
- Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
- A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.
- One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
- A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
- One who prevents interference.
- A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.
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