English words for 'Characteristic of insiders.'
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noun
- Initialism of behind closed doors.
- (astronomy) Initialism of blue compact dwarf.
- (computing, electronics) Initialism of binary-coded decimal.
- (military) Initialism of bad-conduct discharge.
- (computing) Initialism of Boot Configuration Data.
- (psychology, professional credential) Initialism of board-certified diplomate.
- (underwater diving) Initialism of buoyancy control device.
- (cycling) Initialism of bolt circle diameter (a measurement of the various sizes of chainring).
noun
- a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
- (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- (American football) A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
verb
- catch sight of
- secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- watch, observe, or inquire secretly
- (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.
- (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
- (intransitive) To act as a spy.
- (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
contraction
noun
- The characteristic of being inward or directed towards the inside.
- preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values)
- the quality or state of being inward or internal
- preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
noun
- One who whispers insinuations; a secret counsellor.
- A flatterer.
- Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen.
- any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen
verb
noun
- A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
- (horology) A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
- (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
- The act or process of complicating.
- The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
- any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease
- the act or process of complicating
- a situation or condition that is complex or confused
- puzzling complexity
- a development that complicates a situation
noun
- an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
- (politics, history, chiefly US, offensive) A migrant from the Northern to the Southern States after the American Civil War of 1861–5, especially one who went South to gain political influence.
- (derogatory, by extension) One who comes to a place or organisation with which they have no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
noun
- (slang) An informant.
- Anything that makes a squealing noise.
- A pig.
- Any animal or person who squeals.
- (informal, Canada, US, Australia) A kind of jug used to carry beer having 1 litre or 32 ounce capacity (half the size of a growler).
- one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority
- domestic swine
noun
- One who keeps secrets.
- A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
- (loosely) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
- Death (literary)
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To socialize in confidentiality.
- (intransitive) To have an intimate or sexual relationship with a forbidden party.
- (intransitive) To associate as friends with an enemy, in violation of duty.
- (intransitive) To associate with others in a brotherly or friendly manner.
- be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy
noun
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
- A cheat; a con artist.
- (movie theaters) Ellipsis of sneak preview
- The act of sneaking
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
adj
verb
- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- to go stealthily or furtively
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
- pass on stealthily
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- (idiomatic) Strict secretiveness maintained by the members of a group with respect to information which might be contrary to their interests, especially information concerning questionable actions by members of the group.
- the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers
noun
- (informal) An informant or snitch.
- Any of the numerous members of several rodent families that usually have short limbs, a pointy snout, a long, hairless tail, and a body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
- A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
- (military, slang) A ration.
- (UK, north-west London, slang, vulgar) Vagina, vulva.
- (nautical, regional) A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn apart in stormy weather.
- (zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
- (informal) A person who is known for betrayal.
- (informal) A scab: a worker who acts against trade union policies.
- (slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
- (chiefly informal) Ellipsis of muskrat.
- (regional) A scratch or a score.
- A roll of material used to puff out the hair, which is turned over it.
- one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority
- a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
verb
- (of a dog, etc.) To hunt or kill rats.
- (informal, intransitive) To work as a scab, going against trade union policies.
- (regional) To scratch or score.
- (chiefly US) To backcomb (hair).
- (intransitive) To betray a political party, cause or principle; to betray someone, to desert a person or thing.
- Damn, drat, blast; used in oaths.
- (intransitive, with on or out) To inform on someone; to betray someone to the police or authorities.
- give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
- give away information about somebody
- take the place of work of someone on strike
- employ scabs or strike breakers in
- desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
- catch rats, especially with dogs
noun
verb
adj
- secret and sly or sordid
- marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
- Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
- Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.
- Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
- Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily.
noun
- (figuratively) An accumulated characteristic of a person that disguises their true nature.
- A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.
- A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
- Anything inlaid or embedded.
- The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
- the formation of a crust
- a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay
- a hard outer layer that covers something
noun
- (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
- (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
- (mathematics) A type.
- (British, Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
- (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- An act of sorting.
- A general type.
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a person of a particular character or nature
- an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
- an approximate definition or example
verb
- (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
- (transitive) To geld.
- (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
- (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
- (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- examine in order to test suitability
- arrange or order by classes or categories
noun
- an inscrutable person who keeps their thoughts and intentions secret
- one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians
- (figurative) A person who keeps their thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic or impassive person.
- (euphemistic, rare) A sphincter.
- A sphinx moth.
- (mythology) A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal, commonly a lion.
verb
noun
- (colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
- A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
- (figurative) Something at one's disposal.
- (UK, slang) Ellipsis of Oyster card.
- Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
- (UK, slang) A shoplifter.
- The delicate oyster-shaped morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
- a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl
- marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters
- edible body of any of numerous oysters
adj
verb
adj
- Relating to an individual or group of individuals outside of their official roles; often, sensitive or personal.
- (philosophy) Of the mind or language, not in principle experienceable, knowable, or understandable by others.
- (UK, of schools) Financially reliant on fees rather than government funding.
- Not publicly known or divulged; secret, confidential; (of a message) intended only for a specific person or group.
- Secretive; reserved.
- Of a room in a medical facility, not shared with another patient.
- (not comparable, object-oriented programming) Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.
- (finance) Not traded by the public.
- Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded; not publicly accessible.
- Belonging or pertaining to an individual person, group of people, or entity that is not the state.
- Not in governmental office or employment.
- concerning one person exclusively
- confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy
- concerning things deeply private and personal
- not expressed
noun
verb
noun
- A secret or indirect influence.
- The act of pulling (any sense) insufficiently.
- (engineering) A driver for pumping that has the eccentrics under the gear wheel.
- (medicine) Failure to pull a muscle as far as it can contract.
- Synonym of undertow.
- (more generally) A downward pull or force.
- (climbing) A handhold that allows one to pull oneself up from below.
- A negative influence.
adj
verb
adv
adj
- (idiomatic) Isolated; in a remote location; in seclusion; not participating in some official process or system.
- (of a home, business, or the occupants thereof) Not using electricity from the public electrical supply system.
- Not reachable via a publicly available communication system, such as the Internet or a mobile telephone network.
adj
- (rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
- Serving to separate.
- (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
noun
noun
- Initialism of behind closed doors.
- (astronomy) Initialism of blue compact dwarf.
- (computing, electronics) Initialism of binary-coded decimal.
- (military) Initialism of bad-conduct discharge.
- (computing) Initialism of Boot Configuration Data.
- (psychology, professional credential) Initialism of board-certified diplomate.
- (underwater diving) Initialism of buoyancy control device.
- (cycling) Initialism of bolt circle diameter (a measurement of the various sizes of chainring).
noun
- a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
- (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- (American football) A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
verb
- catch sight of
- secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- watch, observe, or inquire secretly
- (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.
- (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
- (intransitive) To act as a spy.
- (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
noun
- The characteristic of being inward or directed towards the inside.
- preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values)
- the quality or state of being inward or internal
- preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
noun
- One who whispers insinuations; a secret counsellor.
- A flatterer.
- Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen.
- any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen
verb
noun
- A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
- (horology) A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
- (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
- The act or process of complicating.
- The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
- any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease
- the act or process of complicating
- a situation or condition that is complex or confused
- puzzling complexity
- a development that complicates a situation
noun
- an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
- (politics, history, chiefly US, offensive) A migrant from the Northern to the Southern States after the American Civil War of 1861–5, especially one who went South to gain political influence.
- (derogatory, by extension) One who comes to a place or organisation with which they have no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
noun
- (slang) An informant.
- Anything that makes a squealing noise.
- A pig.
- Any animal or person who squeals.
- (informal, Canada, US, Australia) A kind of jug used to carry beer having 1 litre or 32 ounce capacity (half the size of a growler).
- one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority
- domestic swine
noun
- One who keeps secrets.
- A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
- (loosely) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
- Death (literary)
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
verb
noun
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
- A cheat; a con artist.
- (movie theaters) Ellipsis of sneak preview
- The act of sneaking
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
adj
verb
- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- to go stealthily or furtively
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
- pass on stealthily
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- (idiomatic) Strict secretiveness maintained by the members of a group with respect to information which might be contrary to their interests, especially information concerning questionable actions by members of the group.
- the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers
noun
- (informal) An informant or snitch.
- Any of the numerous members of several rodent families that usually have short limbs, a pointy snout, a long, hairless tail, and a body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
- A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
- (military, slang) A ration.
- (UK, north-west London, slang, vulgar) Vagina, vulva.
- (nautical, regional) A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn apart in stormy weather.
- (zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
- (informal) A person who is known for betrayal.
- (informal) A scab: a worker who acts against trade union policies.
- (slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
- (chiefly informal) Ellipsis of muskrat.
- (regional) A scratch or a score.
- A roll of material used to puff out the hair, which is turned over it.
- one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority
- a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
verb
- (of a dog, etc.) To hunt or kill rats.
- (informal, intransitive) To work as a scab, going against trade union policies.
- (regional) To scratch or score.
- (chiefly US) To backcomb (hair).
- (intransitive) To betray a political party, cause or principle; to betray someone, to desert a person or thing.
- Damn, drat, blast; used in oaths.
- (intransitive, with on or out) To inform on someone; to betray someone to the police or authorities.
- give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
- give away information about somebody
- take the place of work of someone on strike
- employ scabs or strike breakers in
- desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
- catch rats, especially with dogs
noun
verb
noun
- (figuratively) An accumulated characteristic of a person that disguises their true nature.
- A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.
- A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
- Anything inlaid or embedded.
- The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
- the formation of a crust
- a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay
- a hard outer layer that covers something
noun
- (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
- (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
- (mathematics) A type.
- (British, Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
- (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- An act of sorting.
- A general type.
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a person of a particular character or nature
- an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
- an approximate definition or example
verb
- (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
- (transitive) To geld.
- (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
- (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
- (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- examine in order to test suitability
- arrange or order by classes or categories
noun
- an inscrutable person who keeps their thoughts and intentions secret
- one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians
- (figurative) A person who keeps their thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic or impassive person.
- (euphemistic, rare) A sphincter.
- A sphinx moth.
- (mythology) A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal, commonly a lion.
verb
noun
- (colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
- A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
- (figurative) Something at one's disposal.
- (UK, slang) Ellipsis of Oyster card.
- Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
- (UK, slang) A shoplifter.
- The delicate oyster-shaped morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
- a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl
- marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters
- edible body of any of numerous oysters
adj
verb
noun
- A secret or indirect influence.
- The act of pulling (any sense) insufficiently.
- (engineering) A driver for pumping that has the eccentrics under the gear wheel.
- (medicine) Failure to pull a muscle as far as it can contract.
- Synonym of undertow.
- (more generally) A downward pull or force.
- (climbing) A handhold that allows one to pull oneself up from below.
- A negative influence.
adj
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To socialize in confidentiality.
- (intransitive) To have an intimate or sexual relationship with a forbidden party.
- (intransitive) To associate as friends with an enemy, in violation of duty.
- (intransitive) To associate with others in a brotherly or friendly manner.
- be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy
noun
verb
adv
adj
- (idiomatic) Isolated; in a remote location; in seclusion; not participating in some official process or system.
- (of a home, business, or the occupants thereof) Not using electricity from the public electrical supply system.
- Not reachable via a publicly available communication system, such as the Internet or a mobile telephone network.
adj
- secret and sly or sordid
- marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
- Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
- Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.
- Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
- Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily.
adj
- Relating to an individual or group of individuals outside of their official roles; often, sensitive or personal.
- (philosophy) Of the mind or language, not in principle experienceable, knowable, or understandable by others.
- (UK, of schools) Financially reliant on fees rather than government funding.
- Not publicly known or divulged; secret, confidential; (of a message) intended only for a specific person or group.
- Secretive; reserved.
- Of a room in a medical facility, not shared with another patient.
- (not comparable, object-oriented programming) Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.
- (finance) Not traded by the public.
- Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded; not publicly accessible.
- Belonging or pertaining to an individual person, group of people, or entity that is not the state.
- Not in governmental office or employment.
- concerning one person exclusively
- confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy
- concerning things deeply private and personal
- not expressed
noun
verb
adj
- (rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
- Serving to separate.
- (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it