target of opportunity
usefully
medium
bear down
turn to
probe
carry one's point
how
whip into shape
bigger picture
easy thing
fucker
lick into shape
technique
break someone's back
stroke
attainable
overhauling
elicitation
degaussing
think on one's feet
herald
harbinger
forerunner
predecessor
precursor
dewesternization
proffering
obstacle
thingification
retardant
rechanneling
Bat-Signal
uninform
royal road
distinguishing
flaunting
see the light
rechannelling
evolution
rake
trick
follow-up
substitute
interlarding
qualification
multiuse
Rorschach test
new wine in an old bottle
followup
betrayingly
set the wheels in motion
retro-engineer
strengthening
weasel out
work
reconstruction
work out
run with
imbecilification
stalking horse
mean
expedient
blunt instrument
approach
facilitation
dead letter
cant
stick
indication
wrinkle
weasel
productization
non-issue
predispose
enabling
engenderment
determiner
goal
exaggeration
furtherer
work backward
countermanding
sensitize
sundering
try
stepping stone
tenuki
one for luck
action
unfolding
counter-intention
segue
instrument
nonachievement
nonaccomplishment
pragmatum
coax
go after
hey presto
usefully
betrayingly
target of opportunity
medium
probe
how
bigger picture
easy thing
fucker
technique
stroke
attainable
overhauling
elicitation
degaussing
herald
harbinger
forerunner
predecessor
precursor
dewesternization
proffering
obstacle
thingification
retardant
rechanneling
Bat-Signal
royal road
distinguishing
flaunting
rechannelling
evolution
trick
follow-up
substitute
interlarding
qualification
multiuse
Rorschach test
new wine in an old bottle
followup
strengthening
work
reconstruction
imbecilification
stalking horse
mean
expedient
blunt instrument
facilitation
dead letter
indication
wrinkle
productization
non-issue
enabling
engenderment
determiner
goal
exaggeration
furtherer
countermanding
sundering
stepping stone
one for luck
action
unfolding
counter-intention
segue
instrument
nonachievement
nonaccomplishment
pragmatum
bear down
turn to
carry one's point
whip into shape
lick into shape
break someone's back
think on one's feet
uninform
see the light
rake
set the wheels in motion
retro-engineer
weasel out
work out
run with
approach
cant
stick
weasel
predispose
work backward
sensitize
try
tenuki
coax
go after
noun
- an intervening substance through which something is achieved
- a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
- the surrounding environment
- an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
- (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms
- a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter
- (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed
- a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position
- someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
- (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public
- an occupation for which you are especially well suited
adj
verb
- To intensify one's efforts.
- To approach in a determined manner.
- To steer away from the wind; to approach from windward.
- To exert downward pressure on one's abdomen, as in giving birth, forcing out feces, and some similar bodily maneuvers.
- To push (someone) to the ground; to defeat, overcome.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, down.
noun
- Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
- A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
- A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- An investigation or inquiry.
- a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy
- Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
verb
noun
- The means by which something is accomplished.
- A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.)
- An artificial barrow or tumulus.
intj
conj
- That, the fact that.
- In any way in which; in whatever way; however.
- The manner or way in which.
- She told me how her father was a doctor.
adv
- Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation.
- To what degree or extent.
- By what means.
- In what manner
- With overtones of why, for what reason.
- With what meaning or effect.
- By what title or what name.
- At what price, for what amount (of money).
- In what state or condition.
- In what form, shape, measure, quantity, etc.
noun
- A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done or produced; also, something accomplished by such an effort; an achievement, a feat.
- One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
- In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").
- A flattering or friendly act, comment, etc., done or made to a person to influence them.
- The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
- A masterful or effective action.
- The oblique, slash, or virgule ("/").
- The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the boat, or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a rowing style.
- A beat or throb, as of the heart or pulse.
- An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.
- A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
- An act causing hurt or death, especially when seen as divine punishment.
- A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
- A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.
- A line making up a written character; specifically, a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character.
- A damaging occurrence, especially if sudden; a blow, a calamity.
- A specific combination of movements of the arms and legs which, when repeated, causes the swimmer to advance through the water; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a swimming style.
- A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.
- The hitting of a ball with a racket; also, the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
- An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
- An act, or the sound, of the clapper or hammer of a clock hitting a bell or other striking mechanism; hence, the time when such a strike occurs.
- An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.
- A thrust of the penis during sexual intercourse.
- A single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; also, the length of this movement.
- A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.
- The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
- An amount of work; specifically, a large amount of business or work.
- A distinctive expression in a written composition; a touch.
- The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers; also, the position in the boat occupied by this rower.
- An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
verb
- To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom or brush) along (a surface) in one direction, touching it lightly; to caress.
- Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).
- Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
- To strike (the water) with one's arms and legs when swimming.
- To swim by making co-ordinated movements with the arms and legs.
- To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.
- To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.
- To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
- Of a rower or a crew: to row at (a rate of a certain number of strokes (“movements of the oar through water”) per minute).
- To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
- To bring (something) to a certain condition by stroking (sense 1).
- To influence (someone) by convincing or flattering them.
- To act as the stroke (“rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers”) of (a boat or its crew).
- To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.
- To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.
- Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).
noun
- A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
- The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.
- The extraction of a root from a given power.
- Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
- A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
- A turning movement, especially of the body.
- The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
- The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
verb
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
noun
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a period of work or duty
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a prostitute's customer
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
verb
noun
- Something which reveals the intent of the person using it rather than fulfilling its designed purpose.
- Any test of an individual's perception of phenomena.
- A method of psychological evaluation that uses a person's interpretations of inkblots or similar images to discover information concerning his or her personality, emotional functioning, or unconscious mind.
noun
- Something on which effort is expended.
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
verb
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- A result of an attempt to understand in detail how a certain result or event occurred.
- The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
- A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.
- A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
verb
- To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort.
- To make sense of.
- To strengthen a part one’s body by exercise.
- To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
- To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
- To conclude with the correct solution.
- To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.
- To smooth or perfect.
- To exercise, especially by lifting weights.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, out.
- To calculate.
verb
- To follow something through to completion or realization.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, with.
- To be a member of (a gang, hooligan firm, etc.); to associate with a, typically disreputable, individual or group.
- To take an incomplete or inadequate (plan, text, etc.) and develop it further, often with the implication of carelessness.
- To be streaming with a fluid.
noun
- A person, thing, or expedient used in a deceptive manner, to achieve some hidden purpose.
- A candidate put forward to serve a hidden, ulterior purpose in a political campaign, such as testing the field for another potential candidate by gauging voter sentiment or covertly helping another candidate by attracting voters away from a third candidate.
noun
- A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
- The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.
- Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
- The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms; the arithmetic mean.
- Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
- Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
adj
- Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.
- Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
- Having the mean (see noun below) as its value; average.
- Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.
- Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
- Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
- Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
- Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
- Powerful; fierce; strong.
- Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
- Difficult, tricky.
verb
- To be of some level of importance.
- To have as intentions of a given kind.
- To intend an ensuing comment or statement as an explanation.https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/i_mean%20I%20mean
- To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
- Of a word, symbol etc: to have reference to, to signify.
- To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
- Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.
- To intend (something) for a given purpose or fate; to predestine.
- To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention.
- To lament.
- To convey (a given sense); to signify, or indicate (an object or idea).
verb
- Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
- To play an approach shot.
- To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
- To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
- Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
- To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.
- To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).
- To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
- To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
noun
- An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
- The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
- An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
- The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
- A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).
- A path taken to reach the climbing area, for example, from a car park, road, etc.
- An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
- A specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.
verb
- To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
- To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- To speak in set phrases.
- To set (something) at an angle.
- To bevel an edge or corner.
- Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
adj
noun
- An outer or external angle.
- A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- A corner (of a building).
- A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- A parcel, a division.
- A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
- An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
- Empty, hypocritical talk.
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
- A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
verb
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- To perform (a landing) perfectly.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To stab.
- To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- To persist.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- To jam; to stop moving.
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
noun
- A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- The clarinet.
- Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- General hitting ability.
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- A handgun.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Corporal punishment; beatings.
- The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- Criticism or ridicule.
- A memory stick.
- A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
adj
noun
- something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary
- something that serves to indicate or suggest
- the act of indicating or pointing out by name
- (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
verb
- To achieve by clever or devious means.
- To gain something for oneself by clever or devious means.
- To engage in clever or devious behavior.
noun
- The taxonomic family Mustelidae is also called the weasel family.
- Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and light-coloured belly.
- The least weasel, Mustela nivalis.
- A devious or sneaky person or animal.
- A type of yarn winder used for counting the yardage of handspun yarn. It most commonly has a wooden peg or dowel that pops up from the gearing mechanism after a certain number of yards have been wound onto the winder.
noun
- Something (some input factor, a nonsentient agent) that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
- A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
- A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
- Someone (a sentient agent) who determines; a decider of a disposition.
noun
- A result that one is attempting to achieve.
- A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
- A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
- The act of placing the object into the goal.
- In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
verb
verb
- To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
- To test someone's patience.
- To put on trial.
- To want
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- To put to test.
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- To receive an imminent attack; to take.
- To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
- To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
- To attempt to conceive a child.
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- To taste, sample, etc.
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
noun
noun
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- A way of motion or functioning.
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- Fast-paced activity.
- The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
- The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar or other string instrument.
- A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.
- The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Combat.
- spin put on the bowling ball.
- The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
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- A means or agency for achieving an effect.
- A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
- A device used to produce music.
- A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
- A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
- A measuring or displaying device.
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English words for 'An object to which one's efforts are diverted as soon as it becomes known.'
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