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noun
- A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
- A physical base or foundation.
- A regular frequency.
- In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
- An underlying condition or circumstance.
- A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
- The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
noun
- A basis or foundation.
- A move in which the gymnast places both hands on the mat with the top of the head about 6 inches in front, pushes off with the hands while flipping the legs overhead, and lands on the feet.
- A fountainhead; a source.
- A spring that sits at the top of a mechanism, pushing the internal parts inward.
verb
noun
- A hypothesis or conjecture.
- A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc.
- A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
- A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables).
- A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate.
- The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice.
verb
- To take as a premise; to assume for the sake of argument.
- To be presumptuous; with on, upon, to take advantage (of), to take liberties (with).
- With infinitive object: to be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission.
- To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
verb
- Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- To indicate in a written form.
- To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
- To recite.
- To pronounce.
- To try; to assay.
- To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
- To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
noun
- Tried quality; temper; proof.
- A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.
- Essay; trial; attempt.
- Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
- A strainer for milk.
intj
adv
verb
- To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- To be located (at a particular place).
- To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- To freebase.
noun
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- The smallest kind of cannon.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- freebase cocaine
- A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
- The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mail or other armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- Synonym of radix.
- The game of prisoners' bars.
- The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
- The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
- One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
adj
noun
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- the basis on which something is grounded
- an institution supported by an endowment
- lowest support of a structure
- education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
- a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
noun
verb
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Out of the possession of.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
adv
- Offstage.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
adj
- Inoperative, disabled.
- On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- Inappropriate; untoward.
- Circumstanced.
- Cancelled; not happening.
- Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Presently unavailable.
- Started on the way.
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- The off front wheel came loose.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Far; off to the side.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
noun
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- An instance of starting.
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning of an activity.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
verb
- To begin.
- To flinch or draw back.
- To awaken suddenly.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- To break away, to come loose.
- To put into play.
- To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- To set in motion.
- To have its origin (at), begin.
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- To start one's periods (menstruation).
- To begin an activity.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
adj
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Not negative or neutral.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Optimistic.
- Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Of number, greater than zero.
- Having more protons than electrons.
- HIV positive.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Formally laid down.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- electropositive
- Fully assured in opinion.
- Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
noun
- A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- A positive result of a test.
- An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
noun
- The outset of something; the point of entry, or the beginning of an action.
- The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
- The start of the landing area of a runway.
- The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.
- An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
- The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
- Any end or boundary.
- The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.
noun
- A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
- In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
- A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.
- The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
- A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
- An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
- A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
noun
- A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
- The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.
- A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year).
adj
adv
verb
- To establish a basis for (something).
- To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
- To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
- To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
- To form by combining materials or parts.
- To develop in magnitude or extent.
- To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
- To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
noun
- A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.
- Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
- The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
prep
- Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
- Indicating a starting point in time.
- Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
- Used to indicate source or provenance.
- Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
- With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
- Indicating removal or separation.
- Indicating exclusion.
- Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
- Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
- Denoting a subtraction operation.
- Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
- Indicating differentiation.
- Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being
noun
- An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
- Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there.
- The antecedent of a conditional statement.
noun
- The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.
- The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud.
- The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.
- A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
- An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
verb
adj
- Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
- Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
- Having roots, or certain type of roots.
- In trouble or in strife, screwed.
- Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
- Having a root.
- Broken, damaged, non-functional.
- Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
noun
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
- A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
- A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
noun
- A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
- A player who fails to meet expectations.
- A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- A disappointment.
- The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
adj
verb
- For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- To arrest (someone) for a crime.
- To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- To break in (a woman or girl), To deflower
- To break.
- To exceed a score of 21.
- To break in (an animal).
- An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- To ejaculate; to eject semen.
- To refute an established opening.
- To lose all of one's chips.
- To reduce in rank.
verb
- To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- To grow to maturity.
- To produce seed.
- To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
noun
- A fragment of coral.
- The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)
- A precursor.
- An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- Any small seed-like fruit.
- Semen.
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
- Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- Race; generation; birth.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
noun
- The hypothesis of an implication
- On a Karnaugh map: a set of ones (whose quantity is a power of two) which are related by adjacency (i.e., the set is connected, if the Karnaugh map is considered to be a graph which "wraps around" its edges, like a torus; and all elements of the subgraph induced by the set have the same degree). Equivalently, in terms of Boolean algebra, a product term which, when true, always implies that the given Boolean function is true.
noun
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
verb
adj
adv
noun
adv
- (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result
- to a very great extent or degree
- in a manner that facilitates
- in such a condition or manner, especially as expressed or implied
- to a certain unspecified extent or degree
- in the same way; also
- in the way indicated
- (usually followed by `that') to an extent or degree as expressed
- subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
- in truth (often tends to intensify)
noun
noun
- A support; a reason; a pretext.
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- A stump.
- A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
- The penetration of one's (male) partner in the anus using a dildo.
- A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- A protrusion used to hang things on.
- A step; a degree.
- A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
- A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
verb
- To affix or pin.
- To fasten using a peg.
- To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
- To throw.
- To indicate or ascribe an attribute to. (Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.)
- To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a dildo.
- To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
- To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
- To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
- To fix a value or price.
noun
- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
- continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature
noun
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- The utmost degree.
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.
- A quantity of money.
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
- An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
verb
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