English words for 'Abbreviation of write-off.'
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noun
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- (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
- The result of being impaired.
- An inefficient part or factor.
- A disability or handicap.
- A deterioration or weakening.
- damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength
- the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
verb
- (transitive) To treat as a write-off, a total loss, especially something damaged beyond economic repair.
- (accounting, transitive) To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.
- (accounting, transitive) To record (an expenditure) as an expense.
- (figurative, transitive) To assign a low value to (somebody or something).
- (accounting) To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation.
- (accounting, transitive) To remove a portion of a debt or an amount of an account owed, counting it as a loss (as a gesture of goodwill for example).
- reduce the estimated value of something
- concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody
- cancel (a debt)
- write something fluently, and without hesitation
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- Abbreviation of loss/lose.
- (law) Abbreviation of line.
- Abbreviation of Latinlibra (“pound (sterling)”).
- Abbreviation of leaf.
- Abbreviation of litre or liter.
- the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
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- Abbreviation of transaction.
- Abbreviation of transposition.
- Abbreviation of transfer.
- Abbreviation of transportation.
- Abbreviation of trainee.
- Abbreviation of track.
- Abbreviation of trust.
- Abbreviation of trustee.
- (music) Abbreviation of trill.
- Abbreviation of treasurer.
- Abbreviation of trumpeter.
- Abbreviation of trace.
- (music) Abbreviation of treble.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of tinctura (Latin for “tincture”).
- Abbreviation of troop.
- Abbreviation of tragedy.
- Abbreviation of truck.
- Abbreviation of trumpet.
- Abbreviation of transport.
- Abbreviation of train.
- Abbreviation of translator.
- Abbreviation of translation.
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- (countable, slang) Abbreviation of loss.
- (Internet slang, by extension) A fail.
- Initialism of Latin.
- (usually clothing) Initialism of large (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
- Abbreviation of low pressure front.
- (US, politics) Abbreviation of Libertarian.
- Alternative form of el (“elevated train”).
- (textiles) Initialism of ligne.
- (sports) Abbreviation of losses (statistic).
- Initialism of lobby.
- (slang) Two cigarette papers laid perpendicularly on each other when making a joint.
- Initialism of left.
- Initialism of lira.
- Initialism of lesbian.
- the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
adj
- (linguistics) Initialism of low (variety of a language with limited prestige and official acceptance).
- (slang) Bad, subpar, of inferior quality (abbreviation of loser). (Compare noun etymology 2 sense 1 and etymology 2 sense 2.)
- (usually clothing) Initialism of large (of the manufactured size).
- Initialism of left.
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- The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.
- The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization.
- the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
- an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior
noun
- Synonym of blowout sale.
- (geology) A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
- (carpentry, woodworking) The damage done to the exit side of a drilled hole or sawn edge when no sacrificial backerboard is used during the drilling or sawing: the drill bit's or sawblade's exit on the far side causes chips of wood to be broken from the edge.
- An instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.
- (Australia) An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
- An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.
- The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
- An act of defecation in which an incontinent person, usually an infant or toddler, produces a large amount of excrement that causes their diaper to overflow and leak.
- A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
- (slang, chiefly sports) A contest that is decidedly one-sided; an overwhelming victory.
- (slang) A large or extravagant meal.
- (Philippines) a party (such as a birthday party)
- The blurring of a tattoo due to ink penetrating too far into the skin and dispersing.
- A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
- (slang) An argument; an altercation.
- (slang) A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
- Synonym of taper fade.
- an easy victory
- a gay festivity
- a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus
noun
- (poker) Abbreviation of cutoff.
- (military) Initialism of commissioned officer.
- (military) Initialism of conscientious objector.
- (naturism) Initialism of clothing optional.
- (US, law enforcement) Initialism of correctional officer.
- (military) Initialism of commanding officer.
- Abbreviation of county.
- (US, law enforcement) Initialism of corrections officer.
- (geology) Initialism of common-offset method.
- an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon
- one who refuses to serve in the armed forces on grounds of conscience
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- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
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- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
adj
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
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- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- An end or conclusion.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
noun
- (accounting) Abbreviation of balance sheet.
- Initialism of Bartter syndrome.
- (slang, euphemistic, chiefly Canada, US, also card games) Abbreviation of bullshit.
- (US) Abbreviation of Bachelor of Science.
- (baseball) Abbreviation of blown saves.
- Abbreviation of Bachelor of Surgery.
- a bachelor's degree in science
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- (business, finance, transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
- (real estate, property law, transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
- (transitive, computer science) To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.
- liquidate gradually
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- (transitive, finance) To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.
- (transitive) To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).
- reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
- take away possessions from someone
- deprive of status or authority
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- terminate by selling off or disposing of
- to finish off
- make impossible, especially beforehand
- (transitive) To exclude by blocking all opportunities to enter or join.
- (transitive) To terminate; to call the end of.
- (computing) To terminate a computer program.
- (aerospace) To seal off.
- (surfing, of a wave) To break all at once, instead of progressively along its length.
- (finance) To make trades offsetting an existing position, leaving the trader with a neutral position.
- (intransitive) To settle, to pay what is due.
- (transitive, marketing) Synonym of close (“to make a sale”).
noun
- Abbreviation of compensation.
- A mixture of whiting, resin, and glue for ornamenting walls and cornices.
- (Australia, slang) Workers' compensation.
- (cricket) A type of practice cricket ball made of cork and rubber.
- Lime cement mortar.
- Abbreviation of competition.
- (military, slang, historical, attributive) Compo ration.
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- (Louisiana) The stomach of a pig, especially when stuffed as chaudin (a Louisianan food).
- Synonym of poof: an effeminate gay man; any similarly effeminate man.
- Synonym of pimp, especially one hired by a prostitute as a tout, bodyguard, and driver.
- Synonym of kept man.
- a man who is effeminate in their manner and fussy in the way they dress
- someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
noun
- Abbreviation of account.
- Abbreviation of abbreviation.
- Abbreviation of atmosphere.
- Abbreviation of axis.
- Abbreviation of accommodation.
- Abbreviation of age.
- Abbreviation of aunt.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of area.
- Abbreviation of altitude; altitude intercept.
- Abbreviation of act; acting.
- Abbreviation of aviation; aviator.
- Abbreviation of annealing.
- Abbreviation of afternoon.
- Abbreviation of audit; auditor.
- Abbreviation of adjutant.
- Abbreviation of adult.
- Abbreviation of answer.
- Abbreviation of attendance.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of arc.
- Abbreviation of anthracite.
- Abbreviation of anode.
- Abbreviation of assist; assists.
- Abbreviation of adjective.
- Abbreviation of acceleration (in feet per second).
- Abbreviation of activity.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of are or ares.
- Abbreviation of ampere.
- Abbreviation of acre; acres; acreage.
- Abbreviation of acronym.
- Abbreviation of apprentice.
adj
- Abbreviation of artery; arterial blood.
- (linguistics, by extension) Abbreviation of transitive.
- Abbreviation of acting.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of accidental.
- Abbreviation of absent.
- Abbreviation of abundant.
- Abbreviation of ante (“before”).
- Abbreviation of anterior.
- Abbreviation of annus (“a year”).
- Abbreviation of aerial.
- Abbreviation of accepted.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of anonymous.
- Abbreviation of aqua.
- Abbreviation of available.
- Abbreviation of active.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of automatic.
- Abbreviation of absolute.
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- (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
- The result of being impaired.
- An inefficient part or factor.
- A disability or handicap.
- A deterioration or weakening.
- damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength
- the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
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- Abbreviation of loss/lose.
- (law) Abbreviation of line.
- Abbreviation of Latinlibra (“pound (sterling)”).
- Abbreviation of leaf.
- Abbreviation of litre or liter.
- the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
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- Abbreviation of transaction.
- Abbreviation of transposition.
- Abbreviation of transfer.
- Abbreviation of transportation.
- Abbreviation of trainee.
- Abbreviation of track.
- Abbreviation of trust.
- Abbreviation of trustee.
- (music) Abbreviation of trill.
- Abbreviation of treasurer.
- Abbreviation of trumpeter.
- Abbreviation of trace.
- (music) Abbreviation of treble.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of tinctura (Latin for “tincture”).
- Abbreviation of troop.
- Abbreviation of tragedy.
- Abbreviation of truck.
- Abbreviation of trumpet.
- Abbreviation of transport.
- Abbreviation of train.
- Abbreviation of translator.
- Abbreviation of translation.
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- (countable, slang) Abbreviation of loss.
- (Internet slang, by extension) A fail.
- Initialism of Latin.
- (usually clothing) Initialism of large (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
- Abbreviation of low pressure front.
- (US, politics) Abbreviation of Libertarian.
- Alternative form of el (“elevated train”).
- (textiles) Initialism of ligne.
- (sports) Abbreviation of losses (statistic).
- Initialism of lobby.
- (slang) Two cigarette papers laid perpendicularly on each other when making a joint.
- Initialism of left.
- Initialism of lira.
- Initialism of lesbian.
- the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
adj
- (linguistics) Initialism of low (variety of a language with limited prestige and official acceptance).
- (slang) Bad, subpar, of inferior quality (abbreviation of loser). (Compare noun etymology 2 sense 1 and etymology 2 sense 2.)
- (usually clothing) Initialism of large (of the manufactured size).
- Initialism of left.
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- The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.
- The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization.
- the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
- an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior
noun
- Synonym of blowout sale.
- (geology) A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
- (carpentry, woodworking) The damage done to the exit side of a drilled hole or sawn edge when no sacrificial backerboard is used during the drilling or sawing: the drill bit's or sawblade's exit on the far side causes chips of wood to be broken from the edge.
- An instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.
- (Australia) An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
- An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.
- The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
- An act of defecation in which an incontinent person, usually an infant or toddler, produces a large amount of excrement that causes their diaper to overflow and leak.
- A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
- (slang, chiefly sports) A contest that is decidedly one-sided; an overwhelming victory.
- (slang) A large or extravagant meal.
- (Philippines) a party (such as a birthday party)
- The blurring of a tattoo due to ink penetrating too far into the skin and dispersing.
- A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
- (slang) An argument; an altercation.
- (slang) A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
- Synonym of taper fade.
- an easy victory
- a gay festivity
- a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus
noun
- (poker) Abbreviation of cutoff.
- (military) Initialism of commissioned officer.
- (military) Initialism of conscientious objector.
- (naturism) Initialism of clothing optional.
- (US, law enforcement) Initialism of correctional officer.
- (military) Initialism of commanding officer.
- Abbreviation of county.
- (US, law enforcement) Initialism of corrections officer.
- (geology) Initialism of common-offset method.
- an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon
- one who refuses to serve in the armed forces on grounds of conscience
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- (accounting) Abbreviation of balance sheet.
- Initialism of Bartter syndrome.
- (slang, euphemistic, chiefly Canada, US, also card games) Abbreviation of bullshit.
- (US) Abbreviation of Bachelor of Science.
- (baseball) Abbreviation of blown saves.
- Abbreviation of Bachelor of Surgery.
- a bachelor's degree in science
name
verb
noun
- Abbreviation of compensation.
- A mixture of whiting, resin, and glue for ornamenting walls and cornices.
- (Australia, slang) Workers' compensation.
- (cricket) A type of practice cricket ball made of cork and rubber.
- Lime cement mortar.
- Abbreviation of competition.
- (military, slang, historical, attributive) Compo ration.
noun
- Abbreviation of account.
- Abbreviation of abbreviation.
- Abbreviation of atmosphere.
- Abbreviation of axis.
- Abbreviation of accommodation.
- Abbreviation of age.
- Abbreviation of aunt.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of area.
- Abbreviation of altitude; altitude intercept.
- Abbreviation of act; acting.
- Abbreviation of aviation; aviator.
- Abbreviation of annealing.
- Abbreviation of afternoon.
- Abbreviation of audit; auditor.
- Abbreviation of adjutant.
- Abbreviation of adult.
- Abbreviation of answer.
- Abbreviation of attendance.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of arc.
- Abbreviation of anthracite.
- Abbreviation of anode.
- Abbreviation of assist; assists.
- Abbreviation of adjective.
- Abbreviation of acceleration (in feet per second).
- Abbreviation of activity.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of are or ares.
- Abbreviation of ampere.
- Abbreviation of acre; acres; acreage.
- Abbreviation of acronym.
- Abbreviation of apprentice.
adj
- Abbreviation of artery; arterial blood.
- (linguistics, by extension) Abbreviation of transitive.
- Abbreviation of acting.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of accidental.
- Abbreviation of absent.
- Abbreviation of abundant.
- Abbreviation of ante (“before”).
- Abbreviation of anterior.
- Abbreviation of annus (“a year”).
- Abbreviation of aerial.
- Abbreviation of accepted.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of anonymous.
- Abbreviation of aqua.
- Abbreviation of available.
- Abbreviation of active.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of automatic.
- Abbreviation of absolute.
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- (transitive) To treat as a write-off, a total loss, especially something damaged beyond economic repair.
- (accounting, transitive) To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.
- (accounting, transitive) To record (an expenditure) as an expense.
- (figurative, transitive) To assign a low value to (somebody or something).
- (accounting) To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation.
- (accounting, transitive) To remove a portion of a debt or an amount of an account owed, counting it as a loss (as a gesture of goodwill for example).
- reduce the estimated value of something
- concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody
- cancel (a debt)
- write something fluently, and without hesitation
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noun
verb
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
adj
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
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- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- An end or conclusion.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
- (business, finance, transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
- (real estate, property law, transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
- (transitive, computer science) To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.
- liquidate gradually
verb
- (transitive, finance) To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.
- (transitive) To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).
- reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
- take away possessions from someone
- deprive of status or authority
verb
- terminate by selling off or disposing of
- to finish off
- make impossible, especially beforehand
- (transitive) To exclude by blocking all opportunities to enter or join.
- (transitive) To terminate; to call the end of.
- (computing) To terminate a computer program.
- (aerospace) To seal off.
- (surfing, of a wave) To break all at once, instead of progressively along its length.
- (finance) To make trades offsetting an existing position, leaving the trader with a neutral position.
- (intransitive) To settle, to pay what is due.
- (transitive, marketing) Synonym of close (“to make a sale”).
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- (Louisiana) The stomach of a pig, especially when stuffed as chaudin (a Louisianan food).
- Synonym of poof: an effeminate gay man; any similarly effeminate man.
- Synonym of pimp, especially one hired by a prostitute as a tout, bodyguard, and driver.
- Synonym of kept man.
- a man who is effeminate in their manner and fussy in the way they dress
- someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)