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noun
- An argument; an altercation.
- A large or extravagant meal.
- A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
- The blurring of a tattoo due to ink penetrating too far into the skin and dispersing.
- A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
- A sporting contest that is decidedly one-sided and whose outcome is no longer in doubt.
- An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.
- A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
- A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
- An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
- The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
- An instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.
adj
- Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority
- Discharging an office or function.
- Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
- True, real, beyond doubt.
- Approved by authority; authorized.
- Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
- Dubious but recognized by authorities as truth and/or canon.
- Listed in a national pharmacopeia.
- Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
- Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
noun
noun
- Influence or authority over something.
- A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box (abbreviated Ctrl).
- A control group or control experiment.
- A checkpoint along an audax route.
- A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
- The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
- Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
- A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
- A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
- A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
- Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
verb
verb
- To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
- To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
- to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
- To hold, to control the use of.
- To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
- To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.
noun
- The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
- power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
- A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
- The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
- An order to do something.
- Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
- A command performance.
- A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
- A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.
- The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
noun
noun
- An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
- A complicated or confused state or condition.
- A tangled twisted mass.
- A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
- A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
- A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
verb
noun
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- A calculation that involves this process.
- Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- The act or process of dividing anything.
- A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- The process of dividing a number by another.
- A parliamentary constituency.
- A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- A lesson; a class.
- A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
noun
- An argument or fight.
- A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
- Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
- The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
- A small heifer.
- The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
- A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
- A rucksack; a large backpack.
- A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
- A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
verb
noun
- A disagreement or argument.
- The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
- An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
- A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
- The quality of being different.
- The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
- The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B).
- Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
- A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).
noun
- A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- The substance applied.
- A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
noun
- A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).
- Often preceded by a form of to have: a basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this.
- A propensity to quarrel; quarrelsomeness.
- An arrow or bolt for a crossbow or an arbalest (“a late, large type of crossbow”), traditionally with the head square in its cross section.
- A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window.
- A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively.
verb
verb
- To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
- To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
- To harm or injure by such action.
- To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
- To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
- To shock or surprise.
- Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
- To preserve (food) in a jar.
noun
- A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
- The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
- A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
- A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
- A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
- A sense of alarm or dismay.
- A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
- A pint glass
noun
- An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against.
- An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
- An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised ("thrown") by one part of the program and handled ("caught") by another part.
- The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
- That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
noun
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
- one of two or more contesting groups
- either the left or right half of a body
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- an extended outer surface of an object
- an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect)
- a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure
- a family line of descent
- a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
- an elevated geological formation
- (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
adj
verb
noun
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a job in an organization
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- the appropriate or customary location
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- a rationalized mental attitude
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
verb
verb
- To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.
- To quarrel angrily and noisily; to bicker.
- Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining.
- To gather and organize (data, facts, information, etc.), especially in a way which requires sentience rather than automated methods alone, as in data wrangling.
- To argue, to debate; also (dated), to debate or discuss publicly, especially about a thesis at a university.
- To make harsh noises as if quarrelling.
- To herd (horses or other livestock).
- To manage or supervise (people).
noun
noun
- the power or right to give orders or make decisions
- superior development of one side of the body
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
- the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
noun
- A writ summoning one to answer; an official letter or mandate.
- An answer to any action.
- A position of interest or advocacy.
- An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
- A short news story or report.
- A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
- The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who is counsel for the case.
- A ticket of any type.
- A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
- A barrister who is counsel for a party in a legal action.
- underwear briefs.
verb
- To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power.
- To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.
adj
verb
- To bring into debate; to agitate.
- To incite to action.
- Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
- To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
- To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
- To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
- To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
noun
noun
- Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate.
- An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
verb
- to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss
- to strive or contend about; to contest
- to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
- to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
noun
- the power or right to give orders or make decisions
- (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others
- an expert whose views are taken as definitive
- freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
- an administrative unit of government
- official permission or approval
- an authoritative written work
verb
- To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade.
- To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.
- To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
- To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
- To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
- To have weight or influence.
- To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp.
- To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
noun
- The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
- Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
- Rule; dominion; control; power.
- A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
- A rocking or swinging motion.
- Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side
noun
- A disagreement or dispute.
- A forceful choking or spitting sound.
- A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.
- Chaotic and forceful speaking, verbal exchange, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- A noisy commotion.
verb
- To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.
- To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.
- To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a substance in small drops or particles.
- To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or something).
- Followed by out: to go out (as a flame) or stop functioning (as an engine or machine) with a spluttering action or sound (senses 2.1 or 2.3).
- Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.
- Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or particles.
- To speak hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- To spray droplets of saliva from the mouth while eating or speaking.
- To perform in an inconsistent manner to a substandard level.
- Sometimes followed by out: to speak (words) hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
noun
- Authority.
- Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
- An abusive or insulting epithet.
- A person (or legal person).
- Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
- Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
- Reputation.
verb
noun
- Lively contention or debate, skirmish.
- A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.
- A loud, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.
- A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
- Any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.
- Small cut and polished gemstones sold in lots.
adj
verb
verb
- To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
- To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
- To believe (something is reasonable) and argue (for it); to advocate.
- To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
- contend with: To try to cope with a difficulty or problem.
noun
- Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
- A measure of such ability; volume
- The maximum amount that can be held
- Electrical capacitance.
- Mental ability; the power to learn
- The maximum that can be produced.
- The ability to hold, receive, or absorb
- The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.
- A role; the position in which one functions
- Capability; the ability to perform some task
- A faculty; the potential for growth and development
adj
adj
- having or wielding force or authority
- not faint or feeble
- immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
- of good quality and condition; solidly built
- of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection
- being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content
- freshly made or left
- strong and sure
adj
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