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noun
- An established rule or custom; a guideline.
- A flourish after a signature.
- Red ochre.
- A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
- The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
- A heading in a book highlighted in red.
- A title of a category or a class.
verb
adj
noun
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
- A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
- A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called a cannon.
- Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
- The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
- In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
- A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
- A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
verb
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
adj
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in a certain style.
- Ready, prepared.
- Rigid, solidified.
- Prearranged.
- Fixed in position.
- Intent, determined (to do something).
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
verb
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
noun
- A unit of measurement.
- A piece of legislation.
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- A bed or stratum.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
noun
noun
- A fundamental rule or principle.
- The principle that one should treat other people in the manner in which one would want to be treated by them.
- A method of statutory interpretation, whereby a judge will deviate from a literal interpretation of the law to the extent necessary to circumvent obvious absurdities or (sometimes) conclusions repugnant to public policy.
noun
- A regulation, law, guideline.
- A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
- A regulating principle.
- A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
- A normal condition or state of affairs.
- An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
- A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
- The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
verb
adj
- According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
- Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
- Which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution.
- Which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K.
- Describing a straight chain isomer of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, or an aliphatic compound in which a substituent is in the 1- position of such a hydrocarbon.
- In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
- Which commutes with its adjoint.
- In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (see normal mode).
- Which commutes with its conjugate transpose.
- In whose representation in a given base b ≥ 2, for every positive integer n, the bⁿ possible strings of n digits follow a uniform distribution.
- Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface.
- In which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods.
- Being (as a morphism) or containing (as a category) only normal epimorphism(s) or monomorphism(s), that is, those which are the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively.
- teaching teachers how to teach (to certain norms)
- Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
- Which has a normal distribution; which is associated with a random variable that has a normal distribution.
- Which is pre-compact.
- With cosets which form a group.
- Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.
noun
noun
- Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
- An honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.
- An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.
- Equipment, furniture.
- Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
- The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed
- The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
- The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust
- The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
noun
- the act of controlling or directing according to rule
- an authoritative command
- a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
- the state of being controlled or governed
- (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered
- the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular
adj
noun
- an established custom
- (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
- a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order
- the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal)
- attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire)
- excessive use of drugs
verb
verb
adj
- Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
noun
verb
noun
- Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
- Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
- Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
- A person punished as a warning to others.
- A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
- An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
verb
verb
- To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- To conclude.
- To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- To kill someone or something.
- To issue or result.
- To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
adj
adj
adj
adj
- Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
- In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
- Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
- Authentic, real, genuine.
- Relating to hereditary rights.
- Belonging or relating to the legitimate theater.
noun
verb
noun
- A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
- A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
- General shape or form.
- A fontanelle.
- Earth, ground.
- Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
- Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
- A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
- A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air.
- Distinctive character or type.
- The shape or pattern of a mold.
- A group of moldings.
verb
- To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
- To ornament with moldings.
- To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
- To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence
- To cover with mold or soil.
- To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
- To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
- To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
- To fit closely by following the contours of.
adj
- according to strict interpretation of the law or set of rules
- of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill
- characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences
- of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles
- relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
adj
- of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood
- resulting from or dependent on market factors rather than fundamental economic considerations
noun
name
verb
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- To direct; to counsel; to instruct
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To step off base and move towards the next base.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- Lead climb.
- To produce (with to).
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- To place leads between the lines of.
- To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To have the highest interim score in a game.
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
noun
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- bullets; ammunition.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A lode.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
adj
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