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noun
- A very short period of time; a moment.
- A single, usually precise, point in time.
- A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
adj
- Lasting for a short moment; momentary; short-lived.
- Present; current; extant.
- Very quickly and easily prepared.
- Of the current month.
- Occurring immediately; immediate; present.
adv
noun
- A very short moment of time.
- Correction fluid or correction tape.
- The chaffinch.
- One or more very small, short bursts of light.
- A young, attractive, slim male, usually having little body hair.
- A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.
- A player (or character created by a player) in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game who engages in obnoxious or abusive behaviour, especially one who uses a higher level character to give advanced equipment to one of their own lower-level characters.
verb
noun
- A very short space of time; an instant.
- A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
- One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
- A driving impulse or vital force; the vital center of something.
- The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
noun
- A brief time; an instant.
- Synonym of periwinkle
- The smallest possible amount.
- A subtle allusion.
- An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”)
verb
- To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
- To close one's eyes.
- To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
- Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
noun
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- A quick grab or catch.
- The vulva.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
verb
noun
- A short but unspecified time period.
- A while or a long unspecified period of time
- A point in time; a moment.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
- A fixed part of a module.
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
adj
verb
noun
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a short vivid experience
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a momentary brightness
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a gaudy outward display
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
verb
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- emit a brief burst of light
adj
noun
- A short period of time, particularly a second.
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- Credit, trust.
- The whinchat.
- A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- Ticking.
- A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
verb
adv
- In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
- During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
noun
- An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
- Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.
- Items delivered or completed overnight.
adj
- Complete before the next morning.
- Occurring between dusk and dawn.
- Of an activity or event in which participants stay overnight.
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- The smallest portion of time; an instant.
- A brief, unspecified amount of time.
- Weight or importance.
- A fit; a brief tantrum.
- A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.
- A petit mal episode; such a spell.
- (As in "X moment") An embarrassing event, supposed to be characteristic of some person, group, or situation.
- An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
- A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
prep_phrase
noun
- a limited period of time
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
verb
adj
- lasting a very short time
- allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
adj
adv
noun
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- euphemistic expressions for death
- the motion of one object relative to another
- the end of something
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
noun
adv
- only a very short time before
- and nothing more
- indicating exactness or preciseness
- only a moment ago
- (used for emphasis) absolutely
- possibly (indicating a slight chance of something being true)
- exactly at this moment or the moment described
- by a little
adj
- used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting
- fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
- free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules
adj
noun
- A brief interval.
- A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
- In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
- The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
verb
prep_phrase
adj
- Short in duration; brief.
- Operating on a small scale.
- Very young.
- To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
- Younger.
- Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- Used to belittle a person.
adv
det
noun
- One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- A small amount.
- A child; particularly an infant.
- A newly initiated member of a sorority, who is mentored by a big.
- The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
pron
noun
- A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- An additional helping of food.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A second-class honours degree.
- One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- Second base.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- The second gear of an engine.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
adv
adj
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
verb
- To climb after a lead climber.
- To assist or support; to back.
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under [[#Etymology 3]] for translations.)
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.)
- To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
noun
- A small space or a brief portion of time.
- The space of all linear combinations of something.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
verb
noun
- A period of time when something is available or possible; a limited opportunity.
- Something that allows one to see through or into something
- A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.
- A function multiplied with a signal to reduce spectral leakage when performing a Fourier transform.
- An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.
- A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
- The time between first infection and detectability.
- A restricted range.
- An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
- The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
- Synonym of chaff (“strips of material intended to confuse radar”)
verb
adj
- Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
- Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
- Of water: flowing.
- Burning, flammable, fiery.
- Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
- productive; not "dead" or barren
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
noun
- A fast bowler.
- Plants used in making a quickset hedge
- The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
- Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
- Quitchgrass.
verb
adv
adj
- Of short duration; happening quickly.
- Concise; taking few words.
- Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.
noun
- An answer to any action.
- A writ summoning one to answer; an official letter or mandate.
- 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
noun
- Specifically, a small amount of time.
- A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- A small amount of something.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- A gun.
- The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- A portion of something.
- A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- A unit of measure for information entropy.
- A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
- A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.
- A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
- Fractions of a second.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
verb
adj
noun
- A short interval of relief or time.
- Speedy execution, usually without any proper determination of guilt.
- A rushed sacrament of confession given to a prisoner who is to be executed very soon.
- Sometimes preceded by the: a quick dismissal or rejection, especially one which is impolite and undertaken without proper consideration.
adj
- Brief and to the point.
- Sharp, clearly defined.
- having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
- Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
- Quick and accurate.
- Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- Dry and cold.
- Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
verb
noun
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