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noun
verb
noun
- An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
- An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
- An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or a strong reaction in a person.
- An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.
- A concept or image that upsets somebody by sparking a negative emotional response.
- A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
- A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
- A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command.
- A device that manually lengthens (or sometimes shortens) the slide or tubing of a brass instrument, allowing the pitch range to be altered while playing.
- A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
verb
noun
- an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- the state of having good sense and sound judgment
- a justification for something existing or happening
- a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion
verb
noun
- any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
- events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something
- a justification for something existing or happening
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
verb
noun
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
- Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
verb
prep
- As a result or consequence of.
- Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.
- After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to.
- After in time.
- In the past, from the viewpoint of.
- Concealed by (something serving as a facade or disguise).
- After in physical progress or distance.
- In support of.
- Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of.
- At or to the back or far side of.
noun
- In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
- The rear, back-end.
- The buttocks, bottom, butt.
- A one-point score.
- The catcher.
adv
- Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- At or in the rear or back part of something.
- So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.
- So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.
- In a rearward direction.
- Backward in time or order of succession; past.
adj
adj
- Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
- Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
- Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
- Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
- Falling on or striking a surface.
noun
noun
- An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
- Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
- Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
- The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
- Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
- Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
- Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
- The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
- A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
verb
noun
- An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
- Need; requirement, necessity.
- The time when something happens.
- Something which causes something else; a cause.
- A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
- A special event or function.
- A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
- A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
verb
noun
- An external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon; for example, a spur or incentive that drives a person to take action or change behaviour.
- A sting on the body of a plant or insect.
- Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response, or that affects any of the sensory apparatuses.
noun
- The emergence from multiple causes or origins.
- The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; as opposed to monogenesis.
- The theory that languages developed independently in different places at different periods, as opposed to originating from a single source.
- The genesis of a species from more than one ancestor.
noun
- One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
- A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
- Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
- A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
- An agent or representative.
- A commission agent.
- A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
- A steward or bailiff of an estate.
- Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
verb
noun
- The implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus.
- The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
- The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.
- A substance used as a primer.
noun
- A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
- Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
- Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.
- A commodity offered for sale.
- Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
- A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
- A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
- The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
- Anything that is produced; a result.
- Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
verb
- serve as the inciting cause of
- give an incentive for action
- assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned
noun
- a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)
- (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command
adj
noun
- A possible effect or result of a decision or action.
- The act of implicating.
- The state of being implicated.
- An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
- The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
- Logical consequence.
noun
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
verb
noun
- A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
- A small part of the whole.
- A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
- Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
- An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
- One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
- A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
- The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
- One of the objects in a set.
- One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
- One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
- A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
- An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
- The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
- A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to.
- One of the entries of a matrix.
noun
- The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
- The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
- The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
- The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
- The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.
verb
noun
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- an important question that is in dispute and must be settled
- one of a series published periodically
- some situation or event that is thought about
- the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)
- supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the immediate descendants of a person
- the becoming visible
- an opening that permits escape or release
- the act of issuing printed materials
verb
noun
- The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
- The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
- All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
- A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
- The natural world or ecosystem.
- The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
verb
- followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
- followed by of; general use
- To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- To yearn intensely.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
- To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To lose a game.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- followed by with as an indication of manner
noun
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- Any small cubical or square body.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
noun
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- The situation where a person who knows two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
verb
verb
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- cause to come into a particular state or condition
- go or come after and bring or take back
- bring into a different state
- be accompanied by
- advance or set forth in court
- bestow a quality on
- be sold for a certain price
- attract the attention of
- induce or persuade
verb
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- be employed
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform as expected when applied
- shape, form, or improve a material
- give a workout to
- proceed along a path
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- move in an agitated manner
- cause to work
- prepare for crops
- behave in a certain way when handled
- have and exert influence or effect
- operate in or through
- cause to operate or function
- provoke or excite
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- make something, usually for a specific function
- move into or onto
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- cause to undergo fermentation
- go sour or spoil
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
noun
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- the occupation for which you are paid
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- a place where work is done
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
verb
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- participate in games or sport
- act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome
- play on an instrument
- play a role or part
- be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children
- replay (as a melody)
- perform music on (a musical instrument)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- bet or wager (money)
- engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
- emit recorded sound
- perform on a certain location
- put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
- behave in a certain way
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- use to one's advantage
- consider not very seriously
- be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space
- perform on a stage or theater
- be performed or presented for public viewing
- discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream
- make bets
- stake on the outcome of an issue
- shoot or hit in a particular manner
- use or move
- employ in a game or in a specific position
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- exhaust by allowing to pull on the line
noun
- a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- a theatrical performance of a drama
- a preset plan of action in team sports
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- a state in which action is feasible
- utilization or exercise
- an attempt to get something
- activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
- (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- the removal of constraints
- a weak and tremulous light
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- movement or space for movement
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
noun
- A statement of one's motives, or of the causes of some event.
- The concealment of true motivation in some non-threatening way.
- The process or result of rationalizing.
- The simplification of an expression without changing its value.
- A reorganization of a company or organization in order to improve its efficiency.
verb
- To occur as a causal sequence.
- To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
- To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
noun
- A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.
- A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
- A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
- A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quoting the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).
- A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.
- A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next
- A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next; See also daisy chain
noun
- The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
- An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident.
- A combination of events which have come together by chance to make a surprisingly good or wonderful outcome.
adj
- being an immediate result or consequence
- having no intervening persons, agents, conditions
- in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
- lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact
adv
adj
- direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
- straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action
- in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
- moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
- similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
- (of a current) flowing in one direction only
verb
- command with authority
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- guide the actors in (plays and films)
- govern or manage
- take somebody somewhere
- cause to go somewhere
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction
- specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- put an address on (an envelope)
- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
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