shorthand
shorthandedly
shorthanded
venture
word
suit the action to the word
go off halfcocked
epigram
acute
irresistible impulse
did one's thing
compulsion
impromptu
undertone
laconically
vaniloquent
pauciloquent
chat
on talking terms
brachy-
go off at score
brevity
go
mell
laconism
in sum
apothegm
term
briefish
briefly
pantomime
mentioner
put
gesticulate
make mention of
mention
drop the mic
get
miniguide
holler
shoot off
ditty
touch
pearl of wisdom
direct
no-brainer
did one's own thing
word to the wise
all talk and no action
apophthegm
dulciloquy
waffle
semiarticulate
tersely
flirt
aphorism
play fast and loose
action
croon
auto-suggestion
piss in someone's pocket
muse
sweet-talk
eloquently
uttering
small words
belabour
articulately
touch on
mince
so to speak
took matters into one's own hands
byspeech
subthematically
phrase
tongue
make noises
talk to
tell
blather
locution
chitter-chatter
prompting
unprompted
rame
joke around
semipoetic
jiff
foretalk
jangle
reiterate
lip service
retort
turn
suggestively
acute
vaniloquent
pauciloquent
briefish
direct
semiarticulate
unprompted
semipoetic
shorthandedly
shorthanded
laconically
briefly
tersely
eloquently
articulately
so to speak
subthematically
suggestively
shorthand
word
epigram
irresistible impulse
compulsion
impromptu
brevity
laconism
apothegm
mentioner
mention
miniguide
ditty
pearl of wisdom
no-brainer
word to the wise
all talk and no action
apophthegm
dulciloquy
flirt
aphorism
action
auto-suggestion
sweet-talk
uttering
small words
byspeech
phrase
tongue
blather
locution
prompting
jiff
foretalk
lip service
turn
shorthand
venture
suit the action to the word
go off halfcocked
did one's thing
undertone
chat
go off at score
go
mell
term
pantomime
put
gesticulate
make mention of
drop the mic
get
holler
shoot off
touch
did one's own thing
waffle
play fast and loose
croon
piss in someone's pocket
muse
word
belabour
touch on
mince
took matters into one's own hands
make noises
talk to
tell
chitter-chatter
rame
joke around
jangle
reiterate
retort
adv
adj
noun
- Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
- A brief discussion or conversation.
- An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
- A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
- A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning
- The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
- The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
- A minor reprimand.
- Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
- News; tidings
- A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
- A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
- A promise; an oath or guarantee.
- See words.
- The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
- A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
- The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
- A finite string that is not a command or operator.
- A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
- Logos, Christ.
verb
- To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
- To conjure with a word.
- To ply or overpower with words.
intj
adj
- Brief, quick, short.
- Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
- Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- Intense, sensitive, sharp.
- Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
- Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
- Urgent.
- After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.
- With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
- High or shrill.
- Of an angle: less than 90 degrees.
noun
- An acute accent (´).
- A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
- An accent or tone higher than others.
verb
verb
- To say or speak in an undertone.
- To accompany as an undertone.
- To present as less important, noticeable or prominent.
noun
- A pale colour, or one seen underneath another colour.
- A low state of the physical faculties.
- An implicit message perceived subtly alongside, but not detracting noticeably from, the explicit message conveyed in or by a book, film, verbal dialogue or similar (contrast with overtone); an undercurrent.
- An auditory tone of low pitch or volume.
verb
- To talk more than a few words.
- To talk of; to discuss.
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
noun
- A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- A chat room.
- An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- Informal conversation.
- The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.
- Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation.
prefix
verb
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
prep_phrase
verb
adj
noun
- A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Relations among people.
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
- One whose employment has been terminated
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
adj
verb
noun
- A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, call and response, and fairy-tale plots.
- The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work.
- Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime.
verb
- To express something in a certain manner.
- To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
- To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
- To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- To place something somewhere.
- To attach or attribute; to assign.
- To exercise a put option.
- To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
noun
verb
- To begin (doing something or to do something).
- To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- To cause to become; to bring about.
- To kill.
- To receive.
- To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- To getter.
- To obtain; to acquire.
- To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- To have. See usage notes.
- To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- To cause to do.
- To fetch, bring, take.
- To become, or cause oneself to become.
- To understand. (compare get it)
- To catch out, trick successfully.
- To find as an answer.
- To hear completely; catch.
- To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- To go, to leave; to scram.
- To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- To measure.
- To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- To perplex, stump.
- To cause to come or go or move.
noun
verb
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To concern, to have to do with.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To consume, or otherwise use.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- To come close to; to approach.
noun
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- The children's game of tag.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- Form; standard of performance.
adj
- straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action
- direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
- 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
adj
- having no intervening persons, agents, conditions
- being an immediate result or consequence
- in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
- lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact
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)
adv
verb
- To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
- Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
- To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
- To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
- Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
- To smash (something).
- Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
- Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
noun
- In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
- A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
- A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
- (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
- The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
- A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
noun
- A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.
- Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.
- A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion
- A brief shower (of rain or snow).
- An act of flirting.
verb
- To blurt out.
- To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
- To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
- To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
- To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
adj
noun
- something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- the state of being active
- a military engagement
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- the series of events that form a plot
- the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
- the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
- an act by a government body or supranational organization
- the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
- In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
verb
verb
- To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
- To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
- To effect mincingly.
- To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
- To make less; to make small.
- To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
- To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
- To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
noun
noun
- A short written or spoken expression.
- A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.
- A small section of music in a larger piece.
- A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
verb
noun
- a manner of speaking
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- any long thin projection that is transient
- a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- the tongue of certain animals used as meat
- the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
- metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
verb
verb
- To convey by speech; to say.
- To order; to direct, to say to someone.
- To instruct or inform.
- To narrate.
- To reveal.
- To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show
- To count, reckon, or enumerate.
- To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
- To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
- To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
- To be revealed.
- To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
noun
- A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
- A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
- A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
noun
- Style of discourse or usage, or any particular utterance in such style.
- A phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals through repeated usage.
- A supernatural revelation where a religious figure, statue or icon speaks, usually to a saint.
- The use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way.
verb
- To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
- To bend or curve back.
- To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
- To heat in a retort.
- To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.
noun
- A pressure cooker.
- A crematory furnace.
- A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
- An airtight vessel in which material is subjected to high temperatures in the chemical industry or as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and forging of metal.
- A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.
noun
- A short skit, act, or routine.
- The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A single loop of a coil.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- A pass behind or through an object.
- An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- A walk to and fro.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- The time required to complete a project.
verb
- To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- To magically or divinely attack undead.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- To reach a certain age.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- To complete.
- To become (begin to be).
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To make (money); turn a profit.
- Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
- To change one's direction of travel.
- Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- To hinge; to depend.
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