English words for 'Between participants.'
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adv
adj
- directly between two individuals
- being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player
- (sports) Involving one attacker and one defender.
- (mathematics) bijective or injective
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia) Involving direct communication or competition between two people.
noun
adv
adj
- involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties
- (finance) Of a loan, such that the lender and borrower are individuals rather than companies.
- (telephony) Of a telephone call, such that the caller is only connected and charged if the person he specified is available to speak.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see person-to-person.
adj
prefix
- Between.
- (anatomy) Referring to the mesentery.
- Quasi or partial.
- (anatomy) Mesial in location, position, or direction: towards the midline of the body.
- The middle of a time period, or medium in duration.
- Between a macro- scale and micro- scale in scope or analysis.
- Intermediate between two properties or characteristics.
- Moderate, medium in quantity.
- (chemistry) Designating an achiral member of a group of diastereoisomers that has at least one chiral member.
- Medium in size.
- Middle or centre in location/position.
- Normal, average, or typical.
- (dentistry) The forward side of a tooth.
noun
- One of two (or more) people facing or opposite each other.
- A person holding a corresponding position in another organisation.
- (historical) A small horse-drawn carriage for two people sitting facing each other.
- A date or escort in a social event.
- A sofa with seats for two people, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.
adv
adj
prep
noun
- A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
- (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
- (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.
- A romantic or sexual involvement.
- Connection or association; the condition of being related.
- Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
- a relation between people; (‘relationship’ is often used where ‘relation’ would serve, as in ‘the relationship between inflation and unemployment’, but the preferred usage of ‘relationship’ is for human relations or states of relatedness)
- a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
- a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)
- (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
noun
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A lace-up shoe.
- (phonetic transcription) A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A tiewig.
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- (sports, British) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
- (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
- (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- (sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- equality of score in a contest
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a social or business relationship
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
verb
- (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- (ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To secure (something) by string or the like.
- perform a marriage ceremony
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- unite musical notes by a tie
- create social or emotional ties
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- limit or restrict to
- make by tying pieces together
- form a knot or bow in
noun
- A participant; one involved in something.
- (electronics) An electronic device that plays audio or video media.
- (gaming, video games) A gamer; a person of video games or similar.
- (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
- One who participates in a particular type of sexual play.
- (gambling) A gambler.
- (computing) A software application that plays audio or video media, such as a media player.
- One that plays.
- (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
- One who plays any game or sport.
- (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
- One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
- (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
- a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
- a theatrical performer
- someone who takes part in an activity
- a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
- someone who plays a music as a profession
noun
adj
- having the same quantity, value, or measure as another
- having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
- (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
- The same in all respects that matter practically; interchangeable, fungible, or (even sometimes) identical for practical purposes.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
- The same in value (status, merit, etc): having or deserving the same rights or treatment.
- (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
- (not comparable) The same in one or more respects.
verb
- make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
- be identical or equivalent to
- be equal to in quality or ability
- (mathematics, copulative) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
- (copulative, informal) To have as consequence, to amount to, to mean.
- (transitive) To make equivalent to; to cause to match.
- (transitive) To match in degree or some other quality, to match up to.
noun
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete
- a pair of people who live together
- an exact duplicate
- something that resembles or harmonizes with
- the score needed to win a match
- lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
- a burning piece of wood or cardboard
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
- Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
- (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
- (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
- Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
- Suitability.
- A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
- Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
- A marriage.
- A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- An agreement or compact.
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- give or join in marriage
- make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- provide funds complementary to
- be equal or harmonize
- be equal to in quality or ability
- make correspond or harmonize
- set into opposition or rivalry
- (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
- (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
- (transitive, programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.
- (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
- To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
noun
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- A look; a glance.
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
- A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
verb
- look searchingly
- To make equal in rank.
- (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
noun
- Either party in a duel.
- (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
- (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
- One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
- (UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
- (computing) A security principal.
- A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
- (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
- (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The chief administrator of a school.
- The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- (music) A type of stop on a pipe organ consisting of flue pipes with a bright tonal quality. They are also sometimes referred to as a diapason.
- A main character or lead actor.
- (law) The primary participant in a crime.
- (law) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for their own account
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
- capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
- (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
adj
noun
- (countable) A person caught in an awkward situation between two other people.
- (by extension) Keeping something between one's own group, away from others.
- (countable) The player in that game from whom the object is kept away.
- (uncountable) A game where one group has to keep an object, normally a ball, within their group and away from another group or individual.
pron
adv
conj
det
noun
prep
- In competition with, versus.
- In opposition to.
- In front of; before (a background).
- In physical opposition to; in collision with.
- As protection from.
- (Hollywood) To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
- In contrast or comparison with.
- As a charge on.
- In physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by.
- Contrary to; in conflict with.
- In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
- As counterbalance to.
- Of betting odds, denoting a worse-than-even chance.
- In exchange for.
- Close to, alongside.
- In a contrary direction to.
adj
- With one's back facing that of somebody else.
- (poker slang) Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
- (physics, by extension) Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
- Sequential or consecutive.
- (of a house) Having a party wall at the rear.
- one after the other
adv
noun
noun
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
verb
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
noun
det
pron
- With antecedent as subject.
- (fused relative, archaic or marginal) Whoever, he who, they who.
- (informal, especially non-US) Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams.
- (non-formal) With antecedent as object: whom.
- (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.
verb
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- experience as a reaction
- come together
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- be beset by
- (intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
- (transitive, euphemistic, India) To kill or execute someone extrajudicially.
- (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
- (intransitive, rare) To meet one another.
- (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
noun
- a casual meeting with a person or thing
- a hostile disagreement face-to-face
- a casual or unexpected convergence
- a minor short-term fight
- A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
- (sexuality) A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between two people who have not already established a sexual relationship with each other. In many cases, it does not lead to a relationship, and thus is utterly transient. A sexual encounter can be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is known as sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.
- (sports) A match between two opposing sides.
- A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
- (India) An extrajudicial killing or execution.
- (sciences) The period of a space mission during which it carries out its data-gathering objectives.
noun
- One of two (or more) people facing or opposite each other.
- A person holding a corresponding position in another organisation.
- (historical) A small horse-drawn carriage for two people sitting facing each other.
- A date or escort in a social event.
- A sofa with seats for two people, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.
adv
adj
prep
noun
- A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
- (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
- (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.
- A romantic or sexual involvement.
- Connection or association; the condition of being related.
- Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
- a relation between people; (‘relationship’ is often used where ‘relation’ would serve, as in ‘the relationship between inflation and unemployment’, but the preferred usage of ‘relationship’ is for human relations or states of relatedness)
- a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
- a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)
- (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
noun
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A lace-up shoe.
- (phonetic transcription) A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A tiewig.
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- (sports, British) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
- (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
- (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- (sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- equality of score in a contest
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a social or business relationship
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
verb
- (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- (ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To secure (something) by string or the like.
- perform a marriage ceremony
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- unite musical notes by a tie
- create social or emotional ties
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- limit or restrict to
- make by tying pieces together
- form a knot or bow in
noun
- A participant; one involved in something.
- (electronics) An electronic device that plays audio or video media.
- (gaming, video games) A gamer; a person of video games or similar.
- (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
- One who participates in a particular type of sexual play.
- (gambling) A gambler.
- (computing) A software application that plays audio or video media, such as a media player.
- One that plays.
- (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
- One who plays any game or sport.
- (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
- One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
- (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
- a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
- a theatrical performer
- someone who takes part in an activity
- a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
- someone who plays a music as a profession
noun
adj
- having the same quantity, value, or measure as another
- having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
- (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
- The same in all respects that matter practically; interchangeable, fungible, or (even sometimes) identical for practical purposes.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
- The same in value (status, merit, etc): having or deserving the same rights or treatment.
- (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
- (not comparable) The same in one or more respects.
verb
- make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
- be identical or equivalent to
- be equal to in quality or ability
- (mathematics, copulative) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
- (copulative, informal) To have as consequence, to amount to, to mean.
- (transitive) To make equivalent to; to cause to match.
- (transitive) To match in degree or some other quality, to match up to.
noun
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete
- a pair of people who live together
- an exact duplicate
- something that resembles or harmonizes with
- the score needed to win a match
- lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
- a burning piece of wood or cardboard
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
- Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
- (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
- (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
- Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
- Suitability.
- A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
- Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
- A marriage.
- A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- An agreement or compact.
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- give or join in marriage
- make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- provide funds complementary to
- be equal or harmonize
- be equal to in quality or ability
- make correspond or harmonize
- set into opposition or rivalry
- (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
- (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
- (transitive, programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.
- (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
- To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
noun
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- A look; a glance.
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
- A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
verb
- look searchingly
- To make equal in rank.
- (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
noun
- Either party in a duel.
- (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
- (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
- One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
- (UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
- (computing) A security principal.
- A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
- (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
- (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The chief administrator of a school.
- The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- (music) A type of stop on a pipe organ consisting of flue pipes with a bright tonal quality. They are also sometimes referred to as a diapason.
- A main character or lead actor.
- (law) The primary participant in a crime.
- (law) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for their own account
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
- capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
- (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
adj
noun
- (countable) A person caught in an awkward situation between two other people.
- (by extension) Keeping something between one's own group, away from others.
- (countable) The player in that game from whom the object is kept away.
- (uncountable) A game where one group has to keep an object, normally a ball, within their group and away from another group or individual.
noun
noun
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
verb
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
noun
det
pron
- With antecedent as subject.
- (fused relative, archaic or marginal) Whoever, he who, they who.
- (informal, especially non-US) Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams.
- (non-formal) With antecedent as object: whom.
- (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.
verb
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- experience as a reaction
- come together
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- be beset by
- (intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
- (transitive, euphemistic, India) To kill or execute someone extrajudicially.
- (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
- (intransitive, rare) To meet one another.
- (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
noun
- a casual meeting with a person or thing
- a hostile disagreement face-to-face
- a casual or unexpected convergence
- a minor short-term fight
- A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
- (sexuality) A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between two people who have not already established a sexual relationship with each other. In many cases, it does not lead to a relationship, and thus is utterly transient. A sexual encounter can be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is known as sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.
- (sports) A match between two opposing sides.
- A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
- (India) An extrajudicial killing or execution.
- (sciences) The period of a space mission during which it carries out its data-gathering objectives.
adv
adj
- directly between two individuals
- being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player
- (sports) Involving one attacker and one defender.
- (mathematics) bijective or injective
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia) Involving direct communication or competition between two people.
noun
adv
adj
- involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties
- (finance) Of a loan, such that the lender and borrower are individuals rather than companies.
- (telephony) Of a telephone call, such that the caller is only connected and charged if the person he specified is available to speak.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see person-to-person.
noun
- One of two (or more) people facing or opposite each other.
- A person holding a corresponding position in another organisation.
- (historical) A small horse-drawn carriage for two people sitting facing each other.
- A date or escort in a social event.
- A sofa with seats for two people, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.
adv
adj
prep
adj
adv
adj
- directly between two individuals
- being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player
- (sports) Involving one attacker and one defender.
- (mathematics) bijective or injective
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia) Involving direct communication or competition between two people.
noun
adj
- With one's back facing that of somebody else.
- (poker slang) Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
- (physics, by extension) Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
- Sequential or consecutive.
- (of a house) Having a party wall at the rear.
- one after the other