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noun
- A slight sign of something; a burst, a glimpse, a hint.
- A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.
- A flag used as a signal.
- A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
- An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.
- The name of a number of flatfish such as (dated) the lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) and now, especially, the megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) and (with a descriptive word) a species of large-tooth flounder or sand flounder (family Paralichthyidae).
- A slight attack or touch.
- A characteristic quality of something; a flavour, a savour, a taste.
- A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.
- A sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle.
- A small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.; specifically (obsolete), chiefly in take the whiff: a puff of tobacco smoke.
- From the batter's perspective: a strike.
- An outrigged boat for one person propelled by oar.
adj
verb
- To inhale or exhale (smoke from tobacco, etc.) from a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement; to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.); to puff.
- To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.
- To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.
- To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away.
- Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.
- To be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air; to waft.
- To smoke a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.
- Especially in baseball or golf: to completely miss hitting a ball; hence (baseball), of a batter: to strike out; to fan.
- To give off or have an unpleasant smell; to stink.
- To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.
- To shoot (someone) with a firearm; hence, to assassinate or kill (someone).
- To smell; to sniff.
- To fail spectacularly.
- In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.
- To move in a way that causes a light gust of air, or a whistling sound.
intj
noun
- A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
- A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.
- A signalling interaction between cells
- An electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time, that conveys the information of the radio or TV program or of communication with another party.
- Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection.
- An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
- A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
- Useful information, as opposed to noise.
- An action, change or process done to convey information and thus reduce uncertainty.
- A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel.
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verb
noun
- A mark or sign of implication.
- Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
- A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
- Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details.
- The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
- A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
- A dish that is characteristic of a particular chef.
- A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
- A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.
- Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
- An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
adj
noun
- An outward sign; an indication.
- A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically.
- A mark of infamy or disgrace.
- A scar or birthmark.
- A visible sign or characteristic of a disease.
- A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ).
- The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
noun
- A faint trace or hint (of something).
- A private message to an individual in a chat room.
- A low rustling sound, like that of the wind in leaves.
- A rumor.
- The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords.
verb
- To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.
- To speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.
- To make a low, sibilant sound.
- To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.
noun
- an indication that something has been present
- a just detectable amount
- a suggestion of some quality
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
verb
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- to go back over again
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- discover traces of
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
noun
- The conflation of sign and meaning.
- The isolation of a person or group of people to achieve a specific end.
- Segregationism; the support or practice of segregating racial, ethnic, or religious groups.
- The stance that linguistic signs act (or approach acting) as fixed codes with invariant pairings of form and meaning.
noun
- A sign; an indication; a token.
- An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
- The index finger; the forefinger.
- That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
- An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
- A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
- A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
- A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
- A raised suffix indicating a power.
- A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
- A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context; e.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
- A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
verb
- To measure by an associated value.
- To inventory; to take stock.
- To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
- To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
- To access a value in a data container by an index.
- To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
noun
- an indication that something has been present
- shade within clear boundaries
- an unilluminated area
- something existing in perception only
- a premonition of something adverse
- refuge from danger or observation
- a dominating and pervasive presence
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- an inseparable companion
verb
verb
- To mean, signify.
- To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
- To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
- To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
- To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
- To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
- To be of importance to (someone or something).
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noun
- The side of something, in general senses.
- The flesh between the last rib and the hip; the side.
- The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects.
- The outermost strip of a road.
- The wing, one side of the pitch.
- That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
- A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
- The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.
verb
- To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side).
- To defend the flank(s) of.
- To attack the flank(s) of.
- To place to the side(s) of.
adj
noun
- A subtle allusion.
- Synonym of periwinkle
- A brief time; an instant.
- The smallest possible amount.
- 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.
verb
- To express outward signs.
- To record, especially in writing.
- To sign-up, especially to vote.
- To make or adjust so as to be properly or precisely aligned.
- To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.
- To buy the full version of trial software by providing one's details and payment.
- To make an impression.
- To enter in a register; to enlist.
- To record officially and handle specially.
- To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.
- To be in proper alignment; to align or correspond exactly.
noun
- A style of a language used in a particular context.
- A device that automatically records a quantity.
- The act of registering.
- An organ stop.
- One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.
- The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
- A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow.
- A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs, or intermediate results of computations.
- A list of received calls in a phone set.
- A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
- A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections.
- A book of such entries.
- The range of a voice or instrument.
- The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
- A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
- An entry in such a book.
- The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors.
noun
- A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.
- A handbill consisting of an advertisement.
- An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms.
- A messenger, especially one bringing important news.
- A moth of the species Scoliopteryx libatrix.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a distinguishing symbol
- a reference point to shoot at
- a visible indication made on a surface
- the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
- an indication of damage
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
verb
- attach a tag or label to
- designate as if by a mark
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- celebrate by some ceremony or observation
- make or leave a mark on
- to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- notice or perceive
- mark with a scar
- make small marks into the surface of
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- make underscoring marks
- remove from a list
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- insert punctuation marks into
noun
- The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
- A descriptive linguistic survey.
- A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
noun
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- a public display of a message
- any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease
- having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
- an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
- a gesture that is part of a sign language
- a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified
- a character indicating a relation between quantities
verb
- mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
- approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- be engaged by a written agreement
- engage by written agreement
- communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
- place signs, as along a road
- communicate in sign language
- make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
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- A cue, warning, or alert; a sign or signal that something is wrong.
- A signal that the race must be stopped immediately (and possibly restarted).
- red rag
- A common symbol, usually in the form of a banner, for leftist revolutionary ideologies, especially socialism.
- In the United Kingdom and some other countries, a flag formerly used by a railway guard to warn the driver not to start the train.
noun
- A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
- The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
- Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
- The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
- An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
- The way something looks; personal presence
- That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality
- Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.
noun
- A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
- An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
- A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
- A purposeful aim or goal; intent
- A musical theme or melodic subject.
- More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
- An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
noun
- A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
- A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
- Reputation; distinction.
- A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
- A short informal letter; a billet.
- A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
- A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment
- A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
- A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
- Observation; notice; heed.
- The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.
- A diplomatic missive or written communication.
- A call or song of a bird.
- A critical comment.
- A key of the piano or organ.
- A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
- That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
- An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse.
verb
- To denote; to designate.
- To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
- To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
- To annotate.
- To set down in musical characters.
- To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
intj
- Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
- Indication of sympathy.
- Indication of mouth being opened wide.
- To express understanding.
- Indication of joyful pleasure.
- The sound of one screaming (with as many a's or h's as needed for emphasis).
noun
- Expression of joy and/or pleasure.
- The exclamation aah.
- Expression of amazement, surprise, enthusiasm, or fear.
verb
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