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noun
- One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
- A cafeteria at a movie studio.
- A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
- The judge in a commissary court.
- An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
- A higher-ranking police officer.
- An account which a prisoner uses to buy provisions, or the balance of that account.
- An officer who supplies provisions to an army.
noun
- Any authority which has a legal mandate to govern, administrate a part or aspect of public life, such as all branches of the executive power of a state, province, municipality etc.
- In a wider sense also various chartered organisations holding their authority from the above without being run by public officials
noun
- An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
- A licence to make alterations to a church.
- A division of a university.
- an ability, power, or skill.
- The members of a profession.
- The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
prep
- Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
- Following a passive verb.
- Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
- Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
- Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
- Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
- Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
- At, with, among
- Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
- Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
- Near or next to.
- Following a noun.
- Following an adjective.
- In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
- per; with or in proportion to each.
- Indicates a referenced source: According to.
- Invokes an authority in an oath.
- Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
- From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
adv
- Along a path which runs past the speaker.
- Aside, away.
- To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
- In the vicinity, near.
adj
noun
- A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
- A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
- The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
adj
noun
- A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
- The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
- Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
- A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
- A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
- People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
- Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
verb
noun
- An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
- A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
- The thing to be done as agent for another.
- The act of committing (e.g. a crime or error).
- A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
- A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
verb
noun
- One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.
- A style of a language used in a particular context.
- A device that automatically records a quantity.
- The act of registering.
- An organ stop.
- 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.
verb
- 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 express outward signs.
- 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
- In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
- One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
- One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
- One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.
- One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
noun
noun
- Authority.
- Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
- An abusive or insulting epithet.
- A person (or legal person).
- Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
- Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
- Reputation.
verb
noun
- Persons, regarded collectively, who occupy official positions of power; police or law enforcement.
- A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject.
- Official permission; authorisation to act in some capacity on behalf of a ruling entity.
- A government-owned agency that runs a revenue-generating activity for public benefit.
- Status as a trustworthy source of information, reputation for mastery or expertise; or claim to such status or reputation.
- Power or right to make or enforce rules or give orders; or a position having such power or right.
noun
- an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest
- any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.
- a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
adj
- being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives
- serving to represent or typify
noun
- a person who represents others
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- a member of the United States House of Representatives
- an item of information that is typical of a class or group
adj
adj
- Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority
- Discharging an office or function.
- Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
- True, real, beyond doubt.
- Approved by authority; authorized.
- Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
- Dubious but recognized by authorities as truth and/or canon.
- Listed in a national pharmacopeia.
- Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
- Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
noun
noun
- The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
- The right side or direction.
- A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
- That which complies with justice, law or reason.
- The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
- The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
- A legal, just or moral entitlement.
- The right hand or fist.
intj
- I have listened to what you just said and I acknowledge your assertion or opinion, regardless of whether I agree with it (opinion) or can verify it (assertion).
- Yes, that is correct; I agree.
- Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
- Used to check listener engagement and (especially) agreement at the end of an utterance or each segment thereof.
- Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
adv
- In a correct manner.
- According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
- Immediately, directly.
- On the right side.
- Towards the right side.
- Exactly, precisely.
- Very, extremely, quite.
verb
- To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
- To set upright.
- To return to normal upright position.
- To correct.
adj
- Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's right when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the south bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥴ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the right side of the river.
- Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →
- Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true.
- Healthy, sane, competent.
- Real; veritable (used emphatically).
- Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
- Designed to be placed or worn outward.
- Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
- Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
- Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
- All right; not requiring assistance.
adj
- Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.
- Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.
- Being the current holder of an office or a title.
- Resting on something else; in botany, said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them
- Prevalent, prevailing, predominant.
- Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else.
noun
noun
- A largely ceremonial position in some municipal governments that presides over the city council while a contracted city manager holds actual executive power.
- A local VIP, a muckamuck or big shot reckoned to lead some local group.
- Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland.
- The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc., formerly (historical) usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.
noun
- The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
- The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
- The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
- The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
- Management.
- An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
- A body that administers; a body of administrators.
noun
- (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
- place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
- an administrative unit of government
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- professional or clerical workers in an office
- a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
- a job in an organization
noun
- (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
- possession of controlling influence
- (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second)
- possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
- physical strength
- a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
- energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor
- a very wealthy or powerful businessman
verb
noun
- The state representative of, or second-in-command of a governor, or Crown, who usually acts as the nominal chief executive officer of the realm.
- The next-in-line to the chief executive of a primary political division of the United States of America, such as a state, second to the governor.
- The representative of the Crown in the provincial legislatures of Canada.
verb
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- 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 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 direct; to counsel; to instruct
- 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
noun
- The office or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler.
- A government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power; this system of government.
- Extreme severity or rigour.
- Absolute power, or its use.
- A system of government in which power is exercised on behalf of the ruler or ruling class, without regard to the wishes of the governed.
noun
- A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- A vessel having a specified number of masts.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- A male dominant.
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- A skilled artist.
- Someone who employs others.
- A person holding such a degree.
- The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- An expert at something.
- A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
verb
- To earn a Master's degree.
- To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
- To be a master.
- To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
- To make a master copy of.
adj
noun
- A person's area of authority or expertise.
- The enclosed structure around the paddlewheel of a steamboat.
- A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
- A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter.
- A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
- An enclosed compartment on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, originally housing its helm or steering wheel, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge.
- The partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the panel.
noun
- A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, especially by a king.
- A taxonomic rank in the phylogeny of viruses, higher than kingdoms.
- A scope of operation in networking or security.
- An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
- An otherworldly dimension or domain — magical, ethereal, or otherwise — usually ruled or created by a mystical character.
- The domain of a certain abstraction.
noun
- A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
- A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
- A deed (legal contract).
- The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
- A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
- a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
- A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
adj
verb
noun
- The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
- A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.
- A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.
- The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
- An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
- The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
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