English words for 'Alternative form of preelection.'
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noun
- a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
- (political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
- one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
- coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
- (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
- (aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- (military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
- A primary colour.
- The first year of grade school.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
- A primary school.
verb
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
adj
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
- of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
- most important element
- of or being the essential or basic part
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- First or earliest in a group or series.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
verb
- (transitive) To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.
- (transitive, of a person or factor) To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility.
- (transitive) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.
- (transitive, boxing, wrestling, professional wrestling) To determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated.
- (transitive) To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them.
- declare the loser
noun
- (politics) Initialism of alternative vote.
- (US, military, nautical) Initialism of Auxiliary Voler, a naval aircraft transport.
- (Internet slang) Initialism of age verification.
- (uncountable, among vorarephiles) Initialism of anal vore.
- (computing) Initialism of access violation.
- (computing) Initialism of antivirus.
- (Japanese pornography) Initialism of adult video (“video pornography”).
- (vehicles) Initialism of autonomous vehicle.
- (grammar) Initialism of auxiliary verb.
adj
name
verb
- (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result
- (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
- (grand strategy games, slang) to declare war [with on]
- (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
- (cricket) The decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat in test cricket to save time without being all out.
- (Christianity, particularly Evangelicalism) To state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition in the hopes of seeing it happen spiritually, in contrast to prayer which takes the form of a request.
- (transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
- (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
- state firmly
- designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand
- authorize payments of
- proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against
- announce publicly or officially
- declare to be
- state emphatically and authoritatively
- make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official
verb
adj
noun
noun
- the status or fact of being elected
- the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice
- the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
- a vote to select the winner of a position or political office
- A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.
- (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
- An option that is selected.
- The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
noun
- (politics) A vote made for a candidate of this kind.
- (politics) A candidate whose name is not listed on the ballot.
- (crosswording, derogatory) A clue or puzzle that is so easy that the answer is immediately obvious.
- A social event for authors, at which they meet up to work on their writing together.
- a candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters
- a vote cast by writing in the name of a candidate who is not listed on the ballot
noun
- A system of government in which candidates are required to meet prior ethical, civic, or professional qualifications before standing for election, with political authority ultimately conferred through free electoral processes.
- A form of governance or political organization in which authority or eligibility for public office is based on virtue, moral excellence, or demonstrated civic merit.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To vote at an election.
- (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
- To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
- (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
- To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
- (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
- (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
- To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
- (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
- (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
- (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
- To impose a tax upon.
- To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
- To pay as one's personal tax.
- get the votes of
- convert into a pollard
- get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- vote in an election at a polling station
adj
noun
- A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
- A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
- The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
- (now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
- A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
- The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
- The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
- (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
- A pet parrot.
- an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
- the top of the head
- the counting of votes (as in an election)
- the part of the head between the ears
- a tame parrot
adj
name
noun
adj
- subject to popular election
- Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
- optional
- (US health care system, technical) Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).
- Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.
noun
verb
conj
noun
- a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
- (political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
- one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
- coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
- (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
- (aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- (military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
- A primary colour.
- The first year of grade school.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
- A primary school.
verb
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
adj
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
- of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
- most important element
- of or being the essential or basic part
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- First or earliest in a group or series.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
noun
- (politics) Initialism of alternative vote.
- (US, military, nautical) Initialism of Auxiliary Voler, a naval aircraft transport.
- (Internet slang) Initialism of age verification.
- (uncountable, among vorarephiles) Initialism of anal vore.
- (computing) Initialism of access violation.
- (computing) Initialism of antivirus.
- (Japanese pornography) Initialism of adult video (“video pornography”).
- (vehicles) Initialism of autonomous vehicle.
- (grammar) Initialism of auxiliary verb.
adj
name
noun
- the status or fact of being elected
- the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice
- the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
- a vote to select the winner of a position or political office
- A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.
- (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
- An option that is selected.
- The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
noun
- (politics) A vote made for a candidate of this kind.
- (politics) A candidate whose name is not listed on the ballot.
- (crosswording, derogatory) A clue or puzzle that is so easy that the answer is immediately obvious.
- A social event for authors, at which they meet up to work on their writing together.
- a candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters
- a vote cast by writing in the name of a candidate who is not listed on the ballot
noun
- A system of government in which candidates are required to meet prior ethical, civic, or professional qualifications before standing for election, with political authority ultimately conferred through free electoral processes.
- A form of governance or political organization in which authority or eligibility for public office is based on virtue, moral excellence, or demonstrated civic merit.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- (transitive) To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.
- (transitive, of a person or factor) To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility.
- (transitive) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.
- (transitive, boxing, wrestling, professional wrestling) To determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated.
- (transitive) To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them.
- declare the loser
verb
- (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result
- (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
- (grand strategy games, slang) to declare war [with on]
- (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
- (cricket) The decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat in test cricket to save time without being all out.
- (Christianity, particularly Evangelicalism) To state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition in the hopes of seeing it happen spiritually, in contrast to prayer which takes the form of a request.
- (transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
- (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
- state firmly
- designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand
- authorize payments of
- proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against
- announce publicly or officially
- declare to be
- state emphatically and authoritatively
- make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official
verb
adj
noun
noun
- a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
- (political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
- one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
- coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
- (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
- (aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- (military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
- A primary colour.
- The first year of grade school.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
- A primary school.
verb
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
adj
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
- of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
- most important element
- of or being the essential or basic part
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- First or earliest in a group or series.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
verb
- (intransitive) To vote at an election.
- (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
- To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
- (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
- To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
- (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
- (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
- To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
- (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
- (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
- (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
- To impose a tax upon.
- To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
- To pay as one's personal tax.
- get the votes of
- convert into a pollard
- get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- vote in an election at a polling station
adj
noun
- A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
- A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
- The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
- (now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
- A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
- The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
- The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
- (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
- A pet parrot.
- an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
- the top of the head
- the counting of votes (as in an election)
- the part of the head between the ears
- a tame parrot
verb
conj
adj
adj
- subject to popular election
- Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
- optional
- (US health care system, technical) Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).
- Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.