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adj
- Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
- Stolen.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
- Extremely fast or with great speed.
- Sexually aroused; randy.
- Very good, remarkable, exciting.
- Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
- Feverish.
- Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
- Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
- Popular; in demand.
- Easily provoked to anger.
- Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
- Fresh; just released.
- Having or giving off a high temperature.
- Characterized by police presence or activity.
- Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
- Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
- Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier.
- Extremely attracted to.
- Electrically charged.
- Radioactive.
- Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
verb
adv
noun
- A general trend for future action.
- Guidance, instruction.
- A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).
- The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
noun
- A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
- 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 support; a reason; a pretext.
- 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 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.
adj
noun
- A believer in, or practitioner of, holism; one who believes that a topic of study cannot be fully understood by studying the parts, or who studies by considering the whole.
- One who advocates studying society as a whole, and who consistently interprets the actions of individuals in that context.
- One who prefers to learn by forming an overview of the topic.
adj
noun
- either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
- the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates
- the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
- (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof
- the fruit of a rose plant
adj
noun
- Someone with new or modern ideas.
- any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.
- A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
adj
- Well-informed; current.
- Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Traveling towards a major terminus.
- At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
- Aloft.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Functional; working.
- Raised; lifted.
- Above the horizon, in the sky.
- well-known; renowned
- Awake and out of bed.
- Willing; ready.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Finished, to an end
- On or at a physically higher level.
- Chilled and served without ice.
- Erect.
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Facing upwards.
- In a good mood.
- Built, constructed.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- Riding the horse; mounted.
- Standing; upright.
- Next in a sequence.
noun
- The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
- An up quark.
- An upstairs room of a two story house.
- A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
adv
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- To or from one's possession or consideration.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- In a positive vertical direction.
- North.
- Against the wind or current.
- To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- Without additional ice.
- Relatively close to the batsman.
prep
- From south to north of.
- At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- Of a man: having sex with.
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- Toward the top of.
verb
noun
- A systematic plan of future action.
- A council housing estate.
- An orderly combination of related parts.
- A plot or secret, devious plan.
- A mathematical structure that enlarges the notion of algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring (e.g. Fermat curves over the integers).
- A chart or diagram of a system or object.
- Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
- A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
- A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
verb
adj
- Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
- Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
- Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.
- Genuine - as distinguished from efficient or regular - sacrament.
- Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
- Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.
noun
- a general interest that leads people to want to know more
- the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others
- the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- a courteous act indicating affection
- the faculty or power of mental concentration
- a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review
verb
- To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.
- To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.
- To cause to turn; to bend.
- To cleanse or clean (something, usually wool).
noun
- The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill.
- A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
- The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
- A tendency.
- An inclination in a particular direction.
- A fad or fashion style.
adj
- More comprehensive.
- Greater in size or power.
- Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
- Higher in rank, status, or quality.
- (of a calyx) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part.
- Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
- Of high standard or quality.
- Located above or out; higher in position.
- Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
- (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
- Printed in superscript.
- (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
- Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
- (of a planet) Closer to the Earth than to the Sun.
- Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
- Greater or better than average.
noun
- The senior person in a monastic community.
- One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
- A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
- The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
noun
- The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
- The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
- The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
- The expression of a function in the form of a series.
- The building of such a project.
- Something which has developed.
- The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
- The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
- The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
adj
- Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
- Advancing in severity.
- Of or relating to progressive education.
- Liberal.
- Continuous.
- Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
- Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
- Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
noun
prep
- Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
- Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
- Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
- Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
- Often used without the hour
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).
- Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
- Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
- Indicates a given part.
- Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
- Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
- Used to indicate the material or substance used.
- Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.}}
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
- Denotes the number of minutes before the hour;Before (the hour); to.
- During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
- From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
- Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
- Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
- Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
- Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
- Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
- Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
- Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
- Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
- Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
- Forming the "objective genitive".
- Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
- Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
- Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
- Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
- Introduces its subject matter.
- For (a given length of time).
- Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).}}
noun
adj
noun
- Scholarly interest and research.
- The condition of being so pulled.
- The extent of adoption of a new product or service, typically measured in number of customers or level of revenue achieved.
- Popular support.
- A mechanically applied sustained pull, especially to a limb.
- Collectively, the locomotives of a railroad, especially electric locomotives.
- The act of pulling something along a surface using motive power.
- The pulling power of an engine or animal.
- Grip.
- The adhesive friction of a wheel etc on a surface.
verb
noun
phrase
- An informal greeting asking the other person what has recently happened in their life. A typical response might be "Not much; you?". The greeting is not always literal and may just be used to say hello.
- A rhetorical request for some real news, on hearing a report that was not news because it represents a continuing predictable and unsatisfactory situation.
noun
- the subject matter at issue
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- a single domestic animal
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- a person who is in charge
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- the top of something
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- an individual person
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a rounded compact mass
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- a difficult juncture
- forward movement
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- the striking part of a tool
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- oral stimulation of the genitals
verb
noun
- the subject matter at issue
- an instance of questioning
- a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
- uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- an informal reference to a marriage proposal
verb
adj
- of current relevance
- highly reverberant
- charged with an explosive
- elastic; rebounds readily
- abounding with life and energy
- in current use or ready for use
- charged or energized with electricity
- capable of erupting
adj
- actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
- exerting force or containing energy
- possessing life
verb
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
- continue to live and avoid dying
- support oneself
- have life, be alive
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- pursue a positive and satisfying existence
adv
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