code
symbolic
phraseogram
inferior
type
let be
logograph
contraction
logogram
signum
equals
hieroglyph
phonography
symbolically
episemon
symbolizing
lick
dingbat
symbolising
insignium
point
variable
diacritic
stenograph
fug
token
symboloid
mark
marking
knick-knack
marker
rhematic
sstrange squark
note
identifier
micromark
prick
double-quote
significant
char
rheme
autonymy
streamer
sign
arrow
circumpunct
right bracket
banner
heteronymy
radical
siglum
lexigram
fluff
sup squark
bagatelle
badge
broken bar
frippery
folderol
frivolity
metacharacter
symbolify
pseudoletter
hyphen-minus
formator
special character
precursor
symbolistic
tone indicator
glyph
letter
meaning
manicule
-s
stop squark
flag
stock symbol
represent
character
graphic symbol
wand
grapheme
vertical bar
symbological
sdown squark
trefoil
graph
not equal sign
trinket
ideoglyph
operator
modelling
toy
modeling
seme
model
obelus
rune
symbolic
diacritic
rhematic
precursor
symbolistic
symbological
symbolically
code
phraseogram
inferior
type
logograph
contraction
logogram
signum
equals
hieroglyph
phonography
episemon
symbolizing
lick
dingbat
symbolising
insignium
point
variable
stenograph
fug
token
symboloid
mark
marking
knick-knack
marker
sstrange squark
note
identifier
micromark
prick
double-quote
significant
char
rheme
autonymy
streamer
sign
arrow
circumpunct
right bracket
banner
heteronymy
radical
siglum
lexigram
fluff
sup squark
bagatelle
badge
broken bar
frippery
folderol
frivolity
metacharacter
pseudoletter
hyphen-minus
formator
special character
tone indicator
glyph
letter
meaning
manicule
stop squark
flag
stock symbol
character
graphic symbol
wand
grapheme
vertical bar
sdown squark
trefoil
graph
not equal sign
trinket
ideoglyph
operator
modelling
toy
modeling
seme
model
obelus
rune
let be
symbolify
represent
noun
- A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- A program.
- A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- A particular lect or language variety.
- A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
- Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
verb
- To encode.
- To call a hospital emergency code.
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- To go into a state where a hospital emergency code is required to save one's life.
- To encode a protein.
- To add codes to a dataset.
- Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
- To write software programs.
noun
adj
- Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
- (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- 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
- A symbol, emblem, or example of something.
- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
- Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
- A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
- Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
- A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
- An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
- A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
- The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
- Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
- Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
- An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
- A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
- A blood group.
verb
noun
- A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
- The acquisition of something, generally negative.
- A period of economic decline or negative growth.
- Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
- A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
- A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
- A reversible reduction in size.
- A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
- The process of contracting a disease.
- A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
- A shortening of a muscle during its use.
noun
noun
- A short motif.
- An attempt at something.
- A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
- An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
- A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
- The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
- A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
- The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
- A small amount; a whit.
- A stroke or blow.
- A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
- An act of cunnilingus.
verb
noun
- A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc.
- Anything that can be thrown or swung with force against something else.
- A small device or gadget, the correct term for which is forgotten or unknown.
- An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars.
- A kind of word puzzle involving pictures or typography that hint at the solution.
- A silly, crazy or stupid person.
noun
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- A symbol representing a variable.
- A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
- A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
- A variable star.
- Something that is variable.
- Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
- Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
- A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
adj
noun
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A keepsake.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- A tally.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
verb
adj
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- He was hired as the company's token black person.
- Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
noun
- a distinguishing symbol
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a reference point to shoot at
- a visible indication made on a surface
- the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- an indication of damage
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
verb
- attach a tag or label to
- designate as if by a mark
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- celebrate by some ceremony or observation
- make or leave a mark on
- to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- notice or perceive
- mark with a scar
- make small marks into the surface of
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- make underscoring marks
- remove from a list
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- insert punctuation marks into
noun
- A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
- Reputation; distinction.
- A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
- A short informal letter; a billet.
- A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
- A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment
- A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
- A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
- Observation; notice; heed.
- The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.
- A diplomatic missive or written communication.
- A call or song of a bird.
- A critical comment.
- A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
- A key of the piano or organ.
- A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
- That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
- An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse.
verb
- To denote; to designate.
- To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
- To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
- To annotate.
- To set down in musical characters.
- To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
noun
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- A small pointed object.
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
- The footprint of a hare.
- The penis.
- Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
- A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
- A feeling of remorse.
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
verb
- To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
- To aim at a point or mark.
- To incite, stimulate, goad.
- To shoot without killing.
- To make acidic or pungent.
- To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
- To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
- To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
- To pierce or puncture slightly.
- To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
- To form by piercing or puncturing.
- To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
- Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
noun
adj
noun
- A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
- Any mechanism for streaming data.
- A subscription streaming service.
- A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
- A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
- In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
- A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).
- Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
- A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
- One who searches for stream tin.
- A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
noun
- A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
- An astrological sign.
- A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.
- Sign language in general.
- A wonder; miracle; prodigy.
- A perceptible (e.g. visible) indication.
- A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, can be detected objectively by someone other than the patient.
- A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
- Physical evidence left by an animal.
- A semantic unit, something that conveys meaning or information (e.g. a word of written language); (linguistics, semiotics) a unit consisting of a signifier and a signified concept. (See sign (semiotics).)
- An omen.
- Positive or negative polarity, as denoted by the + or - sign.
verb
- To write (one's name) as a signature.
- To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it.
- To communicate using gestures to (someone).
- To bless (someone or something) with the sign of the cross; to mark with the sign of the cross.
- To engage (a sports player, musician etc.) in a contract.
- To determine the sign of
- To cross oneself.
- To furnish (a road etc.) with signs.
- More generally, to write one's signature on (something) as a means of identification etc.
- To write one's signature.
- To finalise a contractual agreement to work for a given sports team, record label etc.
- To use sign language.
- To communicate or make known (a meaning, intention, etc.) by a sign.
- To calculate or derive whether a quantity has a positive or negative sign.
- To mark, to put or leave a mark on.
- To communicate using a gesture or signal.
noun
- A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. →).
- A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
- A directed edge.
- A dart.
- The inflorescence or tassel of a mature sugar cane plant.
- The -> symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.
verb
noun
- Any large sign, especially when made of soft material or fabric.
- A large piece of cloth with a slogan, motto, or emblem carried in a demonstration or other procession or suspended in some conspicuous place.
- The title of a newspaper as printed on its front page; the nameplate; masthead.
- A type of administrative division in Inner Mongolia and Tuva, made during the Qing dynasty; at that time, Outer Mongolia and part of Xinjiang were also divided into banners.
- A cause or purpose; a campaign or movement.
- A military or administrative subdivision.
- A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content.
- The military unit under such a flag or standard.
- The principal standard of a knight.
- One who bans something.
- A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation.
adj
verb
noun
- A single word or symbol that can have different but related meanings.
- The unrelatedness of words for items that are related by being members of a single category.
- Dissimilarity of people in a single group.
- The use of multiple names for a single person or thing; polyonymy
- The condition of being heteronyms; the relationship between two words with different meanings and either the same spelling or the same pronunciation but not both.
- Resulting from the actions of multiple or external causal agents.
noun
- a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
- an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule
- a person who has radical ideas or opinions
- (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
adj
- of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root
- especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem
adj
noun
- A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.
- A police officer.
- Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
- A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages.
- A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
- A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.
- A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.
- A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no right to armorial bearings.
- An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement.
verb
noun
noun
- A symbol in an alphabet.
- A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.
- Literature.
- A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm, US paper sizes rounded to the nearest 5 mm).
- A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.
- One who lets, or lets out.
- The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (the spirit).
- A written or printed communication, generally longer and more formal than a note.
verb
suffix
- Possessive marker, indicating that an object belongs to the word bearing the marker.
- Used to form regular plurals of nouns.
- Used to form many pluralia tantum (nouns that are almost or entirely without singular forms).
- Used to form the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs.
- Used in the formation of certain English adverbs.
- Hypocoristic suffix
- When appended to a number ending in at least one 0, expresses a range of ordinals which share the same digits when some or (usually) all of those 0s are discounted; frequently used for decades or centuries.
noun
- A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- 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 signal flag.
- A slice of turf; a sod.
verb
- 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 penalize for an infraction.
- 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.
verb
- To serve as a sign or symbol of
- To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something presentative, which was originally apprehended by direct presentation).
- To portray visually; to delineate
- To act as a representative of (a country, state, district etc.)
- To constitute, to make up, to be an example of.
- To participate as a team member
- To present again, for instance for medical attention.
- To constitute a good example or symbol of a group of people; to acquit oneself well.
- To portray by mimicry or acting; to act the part or character of
- To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise act on behalf of
- To bring a certain sensation of into the mind; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.
- To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.
- To portray to another using language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of
- To give an account of; to describe.
noun
- a written symbol that is used to represent speech
- an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
- the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- good repute
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
- (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
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- A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
- A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
- An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
- A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
- A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
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- A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
- A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
- A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
- A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
- The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
- A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
- A member of a military special operations unit.
- The game of Chinese whispers.
- One who operates.
noun
- the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- a type of product
- a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
- representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
- something to be imitated
- someone worthy of imitation
- a representative form or pattern
- a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
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- A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient manuscripts and texts to mark a word or passage as doubtful or spurious, or redundant; an obelisk.
- A dagger symbol (†), which is used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.; beside a person's name to indicate that the person is deceased; or beside a date to indicate that it is a person's death date; an obelisk.
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- A letter or mark used as a mystical or magic symbol.
- A letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
- A Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
- A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation.
- A Unicode code point.
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