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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
- 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
verb
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
- A mark or sign of implication.
- Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
- A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
- Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details.
- The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
- A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
- A dish that is characteristic of a particular chef.
- A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
- A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.
- Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
- An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
adj
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
- A written character or sign.
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- The model number of a device; a device model.
- A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game.
- One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- Attention.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- A characteristic feature.
- A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
verb
- To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
noun
- Any mark that looks like that letter, such as a mark made by a person who cannot read or write in lieu of a signature.
- Cross, crossing.
- The spot behind the goal.
- Ecstasy, a particular street drug.
character
name
- A surname, used by those who have had their identity or heritage, including their proper ancestral names, erased or forgotten.
- Christ
- A placeholder for an unknown, suppressed or hypothetical name.
num
adj
noun
- Something that serves as evidence; a sign or token.
- Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
- One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
- 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.
verb
noun
- A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
- A sign; an indication; a token.
- An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
- The index finger; the forefinger.
- That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
- An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
- A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
- A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
- A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
- A raised suffix indicating a power.
- A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context; e.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
- A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
verb
- To measure by an associated value.
- To inventory; to take stock.
- To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
- To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
- To access a value in a data container by an index.
- To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
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
- a symbol of inquisitiveness
- the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft)
- the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon
- a small distance
- the sense of smell (especially in animals)
- a natural skill
- a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
verb
noun
- A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals.
- The individual who is the focus of a study or review, when the study or review is based on that individual's interactions with others.
- The central or most important element of something; a focal element.
- An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic.
- A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system.
- An exemplar of a concept.
- A major point of interest; an attraction.
adj
noun
adj
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 mark used to represent this special emphasis.
- A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
- The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
- A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
- Emphasis or importance in general.
- A manner of pronunciation suggesting that the speaker is from a different region; a foreign accent.
- Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
- A word; a significant tone or sound.
- Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
- A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
- Expressions in general; speech.
- A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
- Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
- A prime symbol.
- A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
- A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
- The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
verb
noun
- A cue, warning, or alert; a sign or signal that something is wrong.
- A signal that the race must be stopped immediately (and possibly restarted).
- red rag
- A common symbol, usually in the form of a banner, for leftist revolutionary ideologies, especially socialism.
- In the United Kingdom and some other countries, a flag formerly used by a railway guard to warn the driver not to start the train.
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
- The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
- The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
- Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
- The intension and extension of a word
- A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
- Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
noun
- The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
- A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- Something that is sharp.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- A sharp tool or weapon.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- A hypodermic syringe.
adj
- Higher in pitch than required.
- Intelligent.
- Having an intense, acrid flavour.
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
- Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
- Illegal or dishonest.
- Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
- Tactical; risky.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Stylish or attractive.
- Sudden and intense.
- Observant; alert; acute.
adv
- To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
- Exactly.
- In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
verb
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
noun
- A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
- A signalling interaction between cells
- An electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time, that conveys the information of the radio or TV program or of communication with another party.
- Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection.
- An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
- A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
- Useful information, as opposed to noise.
- An action, change or process done to convey information and thus reduce uncertainty.
- A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.
- A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel.
verb
- To communicate with (a person or system) by a signal.
- To indicate; to convey or communicate by a signal.
adj
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 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.
- 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.
- A tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument.
verb
noun
- a gesture that is part of a sign language
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- a public display of a message
- any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease
- having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
- an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
- a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified
- a character indicating a relation between quantities
verb
- mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
- approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- be engaged by a written agreement
- engage by written agreement
- communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
- place signs, as along a road
- communicate in sign language
- make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
adj
noun
- A sign which serves the same purpose in any writing system.
- A diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
- A character which binds consonants into a conjunct or some other form of visual combination which is prototypically a visual indication that the first consonant does not have an implicit vowel
suffix
- Possessive marker, indicating that an object belongs to the noun or noun phrase bearing the marker.
- Used to indicate a quantity of something, especially of time.
- Attached to a noun or noun phrase linked to a genitive of, forming a double genitive.
- Used to form the plurals of numerals, letters, some abbreviations and some nouns, usually because the omission of an apostrophe would make the meaning unclear or ambiguous.
- Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.
- In the absence of a specified object, used to indicate “the house/place/establishment of”.
- Used to indicate various other kinds of relationship, such as source or origin, object of an action, subject depicted, etc.
- Indicates a purpose or a user.
noun
- 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 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 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.
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