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noun
- A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
- A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
- The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
- A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.
- The fact of being obliged to, that is, grateful for, something.
verb
- To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
- To put together in a cover, as of books.
- To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
- To place under legal obligation to serve.
- To cover, as with a bandage.
- To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
- To make two or more elements stick together.
- To exert a binding or restraining influence.
- To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
- To tie; to confine by any ligature.
- To couple.
- To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
- To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
- To cohere or stick together in a mass.
- To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
- To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
- To complain; to whine about something.
- To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
noun
- That which binds or ties.
- A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
- The indurated clay of coal mines.
- A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
- Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
- A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
noun
- Moral or political duty or obligation.
- An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
- A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
- Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
- A physical connection which binds, a band.
- A peasant; churl.
- A binding agreement, a covenant.
- A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
- In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
- A bail bond.
- A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
- A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
- A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
- Any constraining or cementing force or material.
- A mortgage.
verb
- To cause to adhere (one material with another).
- To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
- To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
- To bail out by means of a bail bond.
- To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
- To form a friendship or emotional connection.
- To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
- To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
- To form a chemical compound with.
adj
noun
- An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
- A handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; an individual or action that exposes others to greater risk.
- Any item recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet.
- The condition of being susceptible to something.
- A person on a team that is more of a hindrance than a help.
- The likelihood of something happening.
noun
- A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
- A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
- A curse, a curse word.
- A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
adj
- Having the duty of taking care of something; answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
- Capable of rational conduct and thus morally accountable for one's behavior.
- Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
- Answerable to (a superior).
- Involving important duties; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
- Having good judgment in decision-making.
- Being a primary cause of a situation or action and thus able to be blamed or credited for it.
- In honor shame culture and patronage, the patron of the entity denoted by the prepositional phrase's compliment AKA object, the entity being its client. In this context the patron is usually being described analogously to a rump state that would govern the client, functioning as though it were a complaints department and a disciplinary apparatus by getting involved in any disputes involving the client, e.g. by acid attacking its own client or by taking revenge against the client's accuser.
noun
noun
- An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
- Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
- The state or condition of owing something to another.
- An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due
noun
- A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust
- Specifically, in warfare, an illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack.
- A state or act of deceit.
noun
- A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
- The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
- The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success.
- The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual.
- The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
verb
- To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
- To make a set of changes permanent.
- To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
- To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
- To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
noun
noun
- A person, organization, social movement, piece of legislation, or ideology with a negative agenda or evil intentions under the guise of positive values or good intentions.
- A subversive person or device placed within the ranks of the enemy.
- A malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software.
- A seemingly favorable offer designed to trick customers into making exorbitant payments.
name
noun
- Synonym of social contract.
verb
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- cause the failure or ruin of
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
noun
- A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
- Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
- A daily service without the eucharist.
- A ministry or other department of government.
- The administrative departments housed in such places
- A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
- The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
- Inside information.
- Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
- A service, a kindness.
- Last rites.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work
- A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
- The staff of such places.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
- The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
- A ceremonial duty or service
- Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
- A position of responsibility.
verb
noun
- A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
- A person who funds an operation.
- The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
- An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
- Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth
- A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
- A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
- Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
noun
- One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
- One who has not been seen for a long time.
- A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
- A newcomer.
- An outsider or foreigner.
- One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
noun
- A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
- Importance, claim to notice, regard.
- Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
- The tendency to consider others.
- The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
- A payment or other recompense for something done.
noun
- That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
- Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
- Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
- Trustworthiness, reliability.
- The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
- Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
verb
- To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
- To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
- To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
- to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
- To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
- To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
- To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
- To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
adj
verb
- To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
- To accept into the mind; to understand.
- To be in a position to hit back a service.
- To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
- To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
- To incur (an injury).
- To be in a position to catch a forward pass.
- To detect a signal from a transmitter.
- To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
noun
verb
- To assign a duty or responsibility to.
- To cause to take on an electric charge.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- To impute or ascribe.
- To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- To commit a charging foul.
- To add to or represent on.
- To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- To assume as a bearing.
- To replenish energy.
- To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
noun
- An instruction.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- A sort of plaster or ointment.
- An electric charge.
- An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- Cannabis.
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- A measured amount of explosive.
- An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
verb
- To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
- To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
- To breach (a security system).
- To find a way between extremes.
- To bind by mutual agreement.
- To cause impairment of.
noun
- A breach of a computer or network's rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself.
- The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
- A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
verb
- To assume or take responsibility for a debt or other obligation.
- To make something certain.
- To give an assurance that something will be done right.
noun
- The person to whom a guarantee is made.
- A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
- A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
- More specifically, a written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty
- Anything that assures a certain outcome.
verb
- To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, etc.; to present oneself as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
- To come before the public.
- To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.
- To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
- To bring into view.
- To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
noun
- A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
- One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.
- A senior member of a twelve step or similar program assigned to a guide a new initiate and form a partnership with him.
verb
noun
- An instance of not meeting a quota, debt, or monthly payment on a debt or other obligation, or of having an insufficient amount to cover such obligations.
- The amount by which a quota, debt, or monthly payment on a debt or other obligation is missed; the difference between the actual quota or debt and the lesser amount available to pay such obligations.
noun
- Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”)
- A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
- An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
- An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
verb
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