English words for 'Before a promotion.'
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verb
- To be promoted.
- (transitive) To promote, put onto a higher level.
- (transitive) To raise, put onto a higher place.
- (intransitive) To move one's position to allow others to occupy a place.
- To pass to a higher level.
- (intransitive) To move forward (especially when waiting in a queue / line).
- (transitive) To put higher on a list.
- (transitive, US) To reschedule (something) to an earlier date or time.
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- move upward
noun
adj
noun
verb
verb
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
- increase or raise
- develop further
- bring forward for consideration or acceptance
- move forward
- cause to move forward
- rise in rate or price
- develop in a positive way
- pay in advance
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- contribute to the progress or growth of
- To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
- To increase (a number or amount).
- (intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
- To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
- To raise or increase (a price, rate).
- To help the progress of (something); to further.
- (intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
- To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
- To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
- To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
- (intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction.
- (intransitive) To move forwards; to approach.
adj
noun
- an amount paid before it is earned
- a movement forward
- increase in price or value
- the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
- a change for the better; progress in development
- a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
- An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
- (often in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
- A forward move; improvement or progression.
verb
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- raise in rank or condition
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- (transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
- (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.
- (transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
- (transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
- (computing) To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's request).
- (transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
- (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
verb
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
- make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
- change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent
- contribute to the progress or growth of
- (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
- (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
- (transitive, programming) To treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as having higher priority.
- (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.
- (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
- (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
- (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
- (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to a higher league.
verb
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- raise in rank or condition
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- increase the level of
- put an end to a situation
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
- bet more than the previous player
- create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
- collect funds for a specific purpose
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter
- move upwards
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- cause to become alive again
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- raise the level or amount of something
- activate or stir up
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- invigorate or heighten
- establish radio communications with
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- construct, build, or erect
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
- register formally as a participant or member
- look after a child until it is an adult
- cause to assemble or enlist in military
- (figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- (metalworking, transitive) To emboss (sheet metal), or to form it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- Misspelling of raze.
- (law) To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
- (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
- (nautical) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To collect or amass.
- (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- (India, transitive) To open, initiate.
- To promote.
- (military, transitive) To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
- (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To bring up; to grow.
- (programming, transitive) To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
noun
- increasing the size of a bet (as in poker)
- the act of raising something
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- the amount a salary is increased
- (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
- (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
- (mining) A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.
- A cairn or pile of stones.
- (poker) A bet that increases the previous bet.
- (US) Ellipsis of pay raise (“an increase in wages or salary”).
verb
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- give better travel conditions to
- get better travel conditions
- rate higher; raise in value or esteem
- to improve what was old or outdated
- (transitive) To improve the equipment or furnishings of or services rendered to.
- (transitive) To replace with something better.
- (transitive) To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components.
- (intransitive, transitive, computing) To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher version number or marketed under a more recent product name.
- (intransitive) To improve in condition or status.
noun
- a reservation that is improved
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- software that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components)
- An upward grade or slope.
- An improvement.
- An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.
adv
noun
- Advancement to a higher position or office; promotion.
- A mixture of flour, water and yeast that is allowed to ferment prior to another baking process
- (now historical) Prior claim (on payment, or on purchasing something); the first rights to obtain a particular payment or product.
- A position (especially in the Church of England) that provides profit or prestige.
- the act of preferring
- the act of making accusations
noun
- An advancement in rank or position.
- (chess) Transformation of a pawn into a piece (by reaching the opponent's back rank).
- (zoology, chiefly entomology) Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.)
- (marketing) An event intended to increase the reach or image of a product or brand.
- Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity.
- a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
- act of raising in rank or position
- the advancement of some enterprise
- encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something
verb
- promote from a lower position or rank
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- make reference to
- cause to come to a sudden stop
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
- look after a child until it is an adult
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position.
- (transitive) To prepare a vein for an injection.
- To mention.
- To legally charge and put on trial; to position (someone) for judgement or examination by authority.
- (electronics) To check (a newly-assembled printed circuit board) for errors.
- To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory)
- To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.
- To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
- To vomit.
- (cricket) To reach a particular score, especially a milestone.
- To raise or rear (children).
noun
- A preadmission process; a process that precedes admission.
- Admission, as of steam, to an engine cylinder before the backstroke is completed, thus increasing the cushioning.
- (by extension, health care) A preliminary process that precedes hospital admission for some interventional or surgical procedures.
adj
verb
- come before
- furnish with a preface or introduction
- be earlier in time; go back further
- be the predecessor of
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- (transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
- (transitive) To go before, go in front of.
- (transitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
noun
verb
- come before
- be earlier in time; go back further
- establish something as being earlier relative to something else
- prey on or hunt for
- (transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
- To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
- (ambitransitive) To prey upon something.
noun
verb
- take one's position before a kick-off
- form a queue, form a line, stand in line
- arrange in ranks
- place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- form a line
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- (intransitive, sports) To start a game in a certain position on the playing field.
- (transitive) To put things in a line.
- To agree or correspond.
- To make arrangements for an event.
- To support a group or movement.
- (engineering) To align; to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running.
- (intransitive) To get into a line; especially, so as to wait one's turn.
- (trains) To have switches set so the train is capable of moving along its correct route.
noun
verb
noun
- (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
- Something that is posited; a postulate.
- (aviation) Abbreviation of position.
- (computing) A number format representing a real number consisting of a sign bit, a variable-size "regime" part (which modifies the exponent), up to two exponent bits, and a fraction part, proposed as a more efficient alternative to IEEE 754 floats in AI applications.
verb
noun
- (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- a state of depression or agitation
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city state, with the central government acting as its visible instrument.
verb
- put before
- refer to another person for decision or judgment
- make over as a return
- refer for judgment or consideration
- yield to the control of another
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- yield to another's wish or opinion
- accept as inevitable
- make an application as for a job or funding
- hand over formally
- (intransitive) To yield or give way to another.
- (transitive) To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
- (ambitransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
- (transitive, mixed martial arts, professional wrestling) To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
- (transitive) To subject; to put through a process.
adv
adj
- preceding all others in time or space or degree
- serving to set in motion
- highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
- serving to begin
- ranking above all others
- Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
- Of or belonging to a first family.
- Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
- Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
noun
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- an honours degree of the highest class
- the first or highest in an ordering or series
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- the first element in a countable series
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
- (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
- (in combination) A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
- (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
- (countable, baseball) First base.
- (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
verb
noun
noun
- Advancement to a higher position or office; promotion.
- A mixture of flour, water and yeast that is allowed to ferment prior to another baking process
- (now historical) Prior claim (on payment, or on purchasing something); the first rights to obtain a particular payment or product.
- A position (especially in the Church of England) that provides profit or prestige.
- the act of preferring
- the act of making accusations
noun
- An advancement in rank or position.
- (chess) Transformation of a pawn into a piece (by reaching the opponent's back rank).
- (zoology, chiefly entomology) Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.)
- (marketing) An event intended to increase the reach or image of a product or brand.
- Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity.
- a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
- act of raising in rank or position
- the advancement of some enterprise
- encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something
noun
- A preadmission process; a process that precedes admission.
- Admission, as of steam, to an engine cylinder before the backstroke is completed, thus increasing the cushioning.
- (by extension, health care) A preliminary process that precedes hospital admission for some interventional or surgical procedures.
adj
verb
- To be promoted.
- (transitive) To promote, put onto a higher level.
- (transitive) To raise, put onto a higher place.
- (intransitive) To move one's position to allow others to occupy a place.
- To pass to a higher level.
- (intransitive) To move forward (especially when waiting in a queue / line).
- (transitive) To put higher on a list.
- (transitive, US) To reschedule (something) to an earlier date or time.
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- move upward
verb
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
- increase or raise
- develop further
- bring forward for consideration or acceptance
- move forward
- cause to move forward
- rise in rate or price
- develop in a positive way
- pay in advance
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- contribute to the progress or growth of
- To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
- To increase (a number or amount).
- (intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
- To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
- To raise or increase (a price, rate).
- To help the progress of (something); to further.
- (intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
- To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
- To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
- To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
- (intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction.
- (intransitive) To move forwards; to approach.
adj
noun
- an amount paid before it is earned
- a movement forward
- increase in price or value
- the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
- a change for the better; progress in development
- a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
- An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
- (often in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
- A forward move; improvement or progression.
verb
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- raise in rank or condition
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- (transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
- (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.
- (transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
- (transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
- (computing) To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's request).
- (transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
- (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
verb
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
- make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
- change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent
- contribute to the progress or growth of
- (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
- (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
- (transitive, programming) To treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as having higher priority.
- (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.
- (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
- (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
- (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
- (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to a higher league.
verb
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- raise in rank or condition
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- increase the level of
- put an end to a situation
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
- bet more than the previous player
- create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
- collect funds for a specific purpose
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter
- move upwards
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- cause to become alive again
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- raise the level or amount of something
- activate or stir up
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- invigorate or heighten
- establish radio communications with
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- construct, build, or erect
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
- register formally as a participant or member
- look after a child until it is an adult
- cause to assemble or enlist in military
- (figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- (metalworking, transitive) To emboss (sheet metal), or to form it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- Misspelling of raze.
- (law) To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
- (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
- (nautical) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To collect or amass.
- (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- (India, transitive) To open, initiate.
- To promote.
- (military, transitive) To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
- (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To bring up; to grow.
- (programming, transitive) To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
noun
- increasing the size of a bet (as in poker)
- the act of raising something
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- the amount a salary is increased
- (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
- (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
- (mining) A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.
- A cairn or pile of stones.
- (poker) A bet that increases the previous bet.
- (US) Ellipsis of pay raise (“an increase in wages or salary”).
verb
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- give better travel conditions to
- get better travel conditions
- rate higher; raise in value or esteem
- to improve what was old or outdated
- (transitive) To improve the equipment or furnishings of or services rendered to.
- (transitive) To replace with something better.
- (transitive) To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components.
- (intransitive, transitive, computing) To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher version number or marketed under a more recent product name.
- (intransitive) To improve in condition or status.
noun
- a reservation that is improved
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- software that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components)
- An upward grade or slope.
- An improvement.
- An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.
adv
verb
- promote from a lower position or rank
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- make reference to
- cause to come to a sudden stop
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
- look after a child until it is an adult
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position.
- (transitive) To prepare a vein for an injection.
- To mention.
- To legally charge and put on trial; to position (someone) for judgement or examination by authority.
- (electronics) To check (a newly-assembled printed circuit board) for errors.
- To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory)
- To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.
- To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
- To vomit.
- (cricket) To reach a particular score, especially a milestone.
- To raise or rear (children).
verb
- come before
- furnish with a preface or introduction
- be earlier in time; go back further
- be the predecessor of
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- (transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
- (transitive) To go before, go in front of.
- (transitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
noun
verb
- come before
- be earlier in time; go back further
- establish something as being earlier relative to something else
- prey on or hunt for
- (transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
- To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
- (ambitransitive) To prey upon something.
noun
verb
- take one's position before a kick-off
- form a queue, form a line, stand in line
- arrange in ranks
- place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- form a line
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- (intransitive, sports) To start a game in a certain position on the playing field.
- (transitive) To put things in a line.
- To agree or correspond.
- To make arrangements for an event.
- To support a group or movement.
- (engineering) To align; to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running.
- (intransitive) To get into a line; especially, so as to wait one's turn.
- (trains) To have switches set so the train is capable of moving along its correct route.
noun
verb
noun
- (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
- Something that is posited; a postulate.
- (aviation) Abbreviation of position.
- (computing) A number format representing a real number consisting of a sign bit, a variable-size "regime" part (which modifies the exponent), up to two exponent bits, and a fraction part, proposed as a more efficient alternative to IEEE 754 floats in AI applications.
verb
noun
- (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- a state of depression or agitation
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city state, with the central government acting as its visible instrument.
verb
- put before
- refer to another person for decision or judgment
- make over as a return
- refer for judgment or consideration
- yield to the control of another
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- yield to another's wish or opinion
- accept as inevitable
- make an application as for a job or funding
- hand over formally
- (intransitive) To yield or give way to another.
- (transitive) To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
- (ambitransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
- (transitive, mixed martial arts, professional wrestling) To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
- (transitive) To subject; to put through a process.
adv
adj
- preceding all others in time or space or degree
- serving to set in motion
- highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
- serving to begin
- ranking above all others
- Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
- Of or belonging to a first family.
- Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
- Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
noun
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- an honours degree of the highest class
- the first or highest in an ordering or series
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- the first element in a countable series
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
- (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
- (in combination) A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
- (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
- (countable, baseball) First base.
- (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.