English words for 'Characteristic of protective paternal behavior.'
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noun
- The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them.
- the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good
- The guiding of people in a manner that limits their autonomy in the name of their own well-being.
noun
- Initialism of custodial parent.
- (virology) Initialism of capsid protein.
- (UK politics) Initialism of command paper.
- (4chan slang, humorous, euphemistic) Initialism of cheese pizza (“child pornography”).
- (law enforcement) Initialism of containment perimeter.
- (mathematics) Initialism of critical point.
- (British) Initialism of county primary or community primary (school).
- Initialism of cerebral palsy.
- (Philippines, text messaging) Initialism of cellphone.
- (computing) Initialism of codepage.
- (Internet, euphemistic) Initialism of child pornography.
- Initialism of corporal punishment.
- (origami) Initialism of crease pattern.
- (physics) Initialism of charge-parity.
- (physics) Initialism of center of pressure.
- (military) Initialism of command post.
- (education) Initialism of college prep; college preparatory.
- Initialism of cyberpunk.
- (Philippines, construction) Initialism of contract package.
- Initialism of civil parish (used on OS 1:25 000 scale Explorer maps).
- (linguistics) Initialism of complementizer phrase.
adj
name
noun
- The choice of an object of libidinal attachment on the basis of dissimilarity from early childhood protective and parental figures.
- (organic chemistry) An orthogonal arrangement of groups of atoms within a molecule, often associated with aromaticity.
- (biology) The growth or movement of a plant or animal in a direction perpendicular to a stimulus.
noun
- motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children
- The treatment of people in a motherly manner, especially by caring for them as a mother would care for her children.
- the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother
adj
noun
noun
- Initialism of protective custody.
- Initialism of professional corporation.
- Initialism of privy council.
- Initialism of press conference.
- (computing) Initialism of program counter.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polycarbonate.
- Initialism of political correctness.
- Initialism of Probate Court.
- (gambling) Abbreviation of percentage.
- Initialism of personal computer.
- (US) Initialism of probable cause.
- (anatomy) Initialism of posterior commissure.
- Initialism of patrol cutter.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of propylene carbonate.
- (South Korean idol fandom) Initialism of photocard.
- Initialism of patrol, coastal, a coastal patrol boat.
- Initialism of photocopy.
- Initialism of progressive contextualization.
- (gaming) Initialism of player character.
- (film) Initialism of Production Code.
- (Canadian politics, by extension) A member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- (UK, law enforcement) Initialism of previous conviction.
- Initialism of parsec.
- (anatomy) Initialism of pubococcygeus muscle.
- Initialism of patrol craft.
- Initialism of public convenience.
- Initialism of private chat.
- (bingo) forty-nine (an allusion to a cartoon character, Police Constable 49)
- Initialism of privy councillor and postnominal.
- Initialism of personnel carrier.
- A personal computer, especially one similar to an IBM PC that runs Microsoft Windows (or, originally, DOS), usually as opposed to (say) an Apple Mac.
- (medicine) Initialism of presenting complaint.
- a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
adj
name
- Initialism of Phrozen Crew.
- Initialism of Penn Central.
- (Canada, politics) Initialism of Progressive Canadian Party.
- (US) Initialism of Presbyterian Church.
- (US, navy) Initialism of Coastal Patrol.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Plaid Cymru.
- Initialism of Proto-Celtic.
- (Philippines, law enforcement, historical) Initialism of Philippine Constabulary.
verb
verb
noun
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
verb
noun
- A whirling trick performed with devil sticks.
- (botany) The winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple.
- (zoology, slang) A dragonfly; so named due to its resemblance to a helicopter (sense 1).
- (aircraft) An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail to stabilize the aircraft.
- A powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.
- (dance) A breakdance move in which the dancer spins on the floor while extending the legs to resemble the blades of a helicopter.
- an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
noun
- (figurative) An overdependence on or overattachment to support, especially from one's parents or guardians.
- (aerospace) Any of the various lines connecting a rocket to its launch pad before liftoff.
- (botany) Synonym of funiculus.
- (anatomy) The flexible structure connecting a foetus with the placenta; it transports nourishment to the foetus and removes waste.
- (aerospace) The line that supplies an astronaut with oxygen and communications when outside a spacecraft.
- membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta
noun
- Initialism of spousal support.
- Abbreviation of Saints.
- A conventionally-powered submarine
- Initialism of social security.
- Initialism of stainless steel.
- Initialism of secret service or Secret Service.
- (statistics) Initialism of sum of squares.
- diesel-powered attack submarine
- (computing) Initialism of screenshot.
- (military, astronautics) NATO prefix-code for surface-to-surface missiles developed by the Soviet Union
- (fashion) Initialism of spring/summer, often followed by a year.
- Initialism of Segawa syndrome.
- (textiles) Initialism of side seam.
- Initialism of steamship.
- (baseball) Initialism of shortstop.
- Initialism of screw steamer (a screw-driven steamship)
- the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents
- special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
adj
name
verb
noun
- a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)
- One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
- (UK) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
- (collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.
- (UK) A homeroom.
verb
noun
- A parent company.
- A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
- (physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
- The source or origin of something.
- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
- A surrogate parent.
- (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
- (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
- a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
- an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
noun
adj
- Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
- characteristic of a father
- relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
- Received or inherited from one's father.
- Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.
- Acting as a father.
- belonging to or inherited from one's father
- related on the father's side
noun
noun
- Initialism of child support.
- (baseball) Initialism of caught stealing (especially as a statistic).
- (nautical, telecommunications) Initialism of cable ship.
- (vulgar, slang) Initialism of cocksucker.
- (anatomy) Initialism of coronary sinus.
- (medicine) Initialism of Coma scale, often the Glasgow Coma Scale.
- (biology) Initialism of circumsporozoite.
- (education) Initialism of complementary studies.
- Initialism of controlled substance.
- Initialism of customer service.
- (wine) Initialism of Cabernet Sauvignon.
- (psychology) Initialism of conditioned stimulus.
- Initialism of computer science.
- Short for CS gas
- (telecommunications) Initialism of circuit-switched.
- (UK, law enforcement) Initialism of chief superintendent.
name
noun
- An emotional dependency on being treated as an infant.
- infantile behavior in mature persons
- (sexuality) A paraphilia based on acting like a baby or toddler, sometimes involving being diapered.
- (pathology) An appearance like (that of) an infant.
- an abnormal condition in which an older child or adult retains infantile characteristics
noun
name
adj
- Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.
- Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
- Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity.
- Suspicious; apprehensive.
- suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival
- showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
verb
noun
- Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- (fantasy) An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
- The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
- (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
- A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
- (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
- (UK) A division of a forest.
- An object used for guarding.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
- block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care
- a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections
- a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
- a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
verb
- (transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches. (usually followed by off)
- (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
- (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
- (transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
- (transitive) To defend, to protect.
- watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
noun
- freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child
- The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).
- The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
verb
- look after a child until it is an adult
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- promote from a lower position or rank
- 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
- 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
noun
- the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- The act or process of encouraging the growth or development of something.
- That which nourishes; food; diet.
- The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
- The environmental influences that contribute to a person’s development (as opposed to "nature").
verb
- look after a child until it is an adult
- raise in rank or condition
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- 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
- 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
- look after a child until it is an adult
- cause to rise up
- stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
- rise up
- construct, build, or erect
- (transitive) To move; stir.
- (transitive, vulgar, British) To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
- (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
- (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
- (transitive, of geese) To carve.
- (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
adj
noun
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the back of a military formation or procession
- the side of an object that is opposite its front
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
- (anatomy) The buttocks or bottom.
adv
noun
- a close affectionate and protective acceptance
- a person's breast or chest
- the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept
- the locus of feelings and intuitions
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- cloth that covers the chest or breasts
- A breast, one of a woman's breasts
- The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
- A depression round the eye of a millstone.
- Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
- The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
- The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
verb
- hide in one's bosom
- hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
- (intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
- To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
- To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
- (transitive) To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.
adj
noun
- a close affectionate and protective acceptance
- the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)
- the state of taking in or encircling
- (figuratively) An act of enfolding or including.
- An act of putting arms around someone and bringing the person close to the chest; a hug.
- (figuratively) An enclosure partially or fully surrounding someone or something.
- (figuratively) Full acceptance (of something).
verb
- include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory
- hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- (transitive) To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
- (transitive, figuratively) To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To encircle; to enclose, to encompass.
- (transitive, figuratively) To seize (something) eagerly or with alacrity; to accept or take up with cordiality; to welcome.
- (transitive, figuratively) To submit to; to undergo.
adj
- relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
- related on the mother's side
- characteristic of a mother
- relating to or derived from one's mother
- Of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother; motherly.
- (anatomy, medicine) Derived from the mother as opposed to the foetus during pregnancy.
- Related through the mother, or her side of the family.
noun
adj
noun
noun
- The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them.
- the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good
- The guiding of people in a manner that limits their autonomy in the name of their own well-being.
noun
- Initialism of custodial parent.
- (virology) Initialism of capsid protein.
- (UK politics) Initialism of command paper.
- (4chan slang, humorous, euphemistic) Initialism of cheese pizza (“child pornography”).
- (law enforcement) Initialism of containment perimeter.
- (mathematics) Initialism of critical point.
- (British) Initialism of county primary or community primary (school).
- Initialism of cerebral palsy.
- (Philippines, text messaging) Initialism of cellphone.
- (computing) Initialism of codepage.
- (Internet, euphemistic) Initialism of child pornography.
- Initialism of corporal punishment.
- (origami) Initialism of crease pattern.
- (physics) Initialism of charge-parity.
- (physics) Initialism of center of pressure.
- (military) Initialism of command post.
- (education) Initialism of college prep; college preparatory.
- Initialism of cyberpunk.
- (Philippines, construction) Initialism of contract package.
- Initialism of civil parish (used on OS 1:25 000 scale Explorer maps).
- (linguistics) Initialism of complementizer phrase.
adj
name
noun
- The choice of an object of libidinal attachment on the basis of dissimilarity from early childhood protective and parental figures.
- (organic chemistry) An orthogonal arrangement of groups of atoms within a molecule, often associated with aromaticity.
- (biology) The growth or movement of a plant or animal in a direction perpendicular to a stimulus.
noun
- motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children
- The treatment of people in a motherly manner, especially by caring for them as a mother would care for her children.
- the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother
noun
- Initialism of protective custody.
- Initialism of professional corporation.
- Initialism of privy council.
- Initialism of press conference.
- (computing) Initialism of program counter.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polycarbonate.
- Initialism of political correctness.
- Initialism of Probate Court.
- (gambling) Abbreviation of percentage.
- Initialism of personal computer.
- (US) Initialism of probable cause.
- (anatomy) Initialism of posterior commissure.
- Initialism of patrol cutter.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of propylene carbonate.
- (South Korean idol fandom) Initialism of photocard.
- Initialism of patrol, coastal, a coastal patrol boat.
- Initialism of photocopy.
- Initialism of progressive contextualization.
- (gaming) Initialism of player character.
- (film) Initialism of Production Code.
- (Canadian politics, by extension) A member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- (UK, law enforcement) Initialism of previous conviction.
- Initialism of parsec.
- (anatomy) Initialism of pubococcygeus muscle.
- Initialism of patrol craft.
- Initialism of public convenience.
- Initialism of private chat.
- (bingo) forty-nine (an allusion to a cartoon character, Police Constable 49)
- Initialism of privy councillor and postnominal.
- Initialism of personnel carrier.
- A personal computer, especially one similar to an IBM PC that runs Microsoft Windows (or, originally, DOS), usually as opposed to (say) an Apple Mac.
- (medicine) Initialism of presenting complaint.
- a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
adj
name
- Initialism of Phrozen Crew.
- Initialism of Penn Central.
- (Canada, politics) Initialism of Progressive Canadian Party.
- (US) Initialism of Presbyterian Church.
- (US, navy) Initialism of Coastal Patrol.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Plaid Cymru.
- Initialism of Proto-Celtic.
- (Philippines, law enforcement, historical) Initialism of Philippine Constabulary.
verb
noun
- (figurative) An overdependence on or overattachment to support, especially from one's parents or guardians.
- (aerospace) Any of the various lines connecting a rocket to its launch pad before liftoff.
- (botany) Synonym of funiculus.
- (anatomy) The flexible structure connecting a foetus with the placenta; it transports nourishment to the foetus and removes waste.
- (aerospace) The line that supplies an astronaut with oxygen and communications when outside a spacecraft.
- membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta
noun
- Initialism of spousal support.
- Abbreviation of Saints.
- A conventionally-powered submarine
- Initialism of social security.
- Initialism of stainless steel.
- Initialism of secret service or Secret Service.
- (statistics) Initialism of sum of squares.
- diesel-powered attack submarine
- (computing) Initialism of screenshot.
- (military, astronautics) NATO prefix-code for surface-to-surface missiles developed by the Soviet Union
- (fashion) Initialism of spring/summer, often followed by a year.
- Initialism of Segawa syndrome.
- (textiles) Initialism of side seam.
- Initialism of steamship.
- (baseball) Initialism of shortstop.
- Initialism of screw steamer (a screw-driven steamship)
- the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents
- special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
adj
name
noun
noun
- Initialism of child support.
- (baseball) Initialism of caught stealing (especially as a statistic).
- (nautical, telecommunications) Initialism of cable ship.
- (vulgar, slang) Initialism of cocksucker.
- (anatomy) Initialism of coronary sinus.
- (medicine) Initialism of Coma scale, often the Glasgow Coma Scale.
- (biology) Initialism of circumsporozoite.
- (education) Initialism of complementary studies.
- Initialism of controlled substance.
- Initialism of customer service.
- (wine) Initialism of Cabernet Sauvignon.
- (psychology) Initialism of conditioned stimulus.
- Initialism of computer science.
- Short for CS gas
- (telecommunications) Initialism of circuit-switched.
- (UK, law enforcement) Initialism of chief superintendent.
name
noun
- An emotional dependency on being treated as an infant.
- infantile behavior in mature persons
- (sexuality) A paraphilia based on acting like a baby or toddler, sometimes involving being diapered.
- (pathology) An appearance like (that of) an infant.
- an abnormal condition in which an older child or adult retains infantile characteristics
noun
name
noun
- Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- (fantasy) An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
- The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
- (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
- A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
- (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
- (UK) A division of a forest.
- An object used for guarding.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
- block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care
- a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections
- a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
- a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
verb
- (transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches. (usually followed by off)
- (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
- (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
- (transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
- (transitive) To defend, to protect.
- watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
noun
- freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child
- The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).
- The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
noun
- a close affectionate and protective acceptance
- a person's breast or chest
- the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept
- the locus of feelings and intuitions
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- cloth that covers the chest or breasts
- A breast, one of a woman's breasts
- The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
- A depression round the eye of a millstone.
- Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
- The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
- The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
verb
- hide in one's bosom
- hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
- (intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
- To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
- To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
- (transitive) To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.
adj
noun
- a close affectionate and protective acceptance
- the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)
- the state of taking in or encircling
- (figuratively) An act of enfolding or including.
- An act of putting arms around someone and bringing the person close to the chest; a hug.
- (figuratively) An enclosure partially or fully surrounding someone or something.
- (figuratively) Full acceptance (of something).
verb
- include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory
- hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- (transitive) To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
- (transitive, figuratively) To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To encircle; to enclose, to encompass.
- (transitive, figuratively) To seize (something) eagerly or with alacrity; to accept or take up with cordiality; to welcome.
- (transitive, figuratively) To submit to; to undergo.
verb
noun
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
verb
noun
- A whirling trick performed with devil sticks.
- (botany) The winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple.
- (zoology, slang) A dragonfly; so named due to its resemblance to a helicopter (sense 1).
- (aircraft) An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail to stabilize the aircraft.
- A powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.
- (dance) A breakdance move in which the dancer spins on the floor while extending the legs to resemble the blades of a helicopter.
- an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
verb
noun
- a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)
- One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
- (UK) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
- (collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.
- (UK) A homeroom.
verb
noun
- A parent company.
- A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
- (physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
- The source or origin of something.
- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
- A surrogate parent.
- (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
- (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
- a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
- an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
verb
- look after a child until it is an adult
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- promote from a lower position or rank
- 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
- 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
noun
- the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- The act or process of encouraging the growth or development of something.
- That which nourishes; food; diet.
- The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
- The environmental influences that contribute to a person’s development (as opposed to "nature").
verb
- look after a child until it is an adult
- raise in rank or condition
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- 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
- 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
- look after a child until it is an adult
- cause to rise up
- stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
- rise up
- construct, build, or erect
- (transitive) To move; stir.
- (transitive, vulgar, British) To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
- (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
- (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
- (transitive, of geese) To carve.
- (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
adj
noun
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the back of a military formation or procession
- the side of an object that is opposite its front
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
- (anatomy) The buttocks or bottom.
adv
adj
noun
adj
- Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
- characteristic of a father
- relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
- Received or inherited from one's father.
- Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.
- Acting as a father.
- belonging to or inherited from one's father
- related on the father's side
noun
adj
- Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.
- Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
- Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity.
- Suspicious; apprehensive.
- suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival
- showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
verb
adj
- relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
- related on the mother's side
- characteristic of a mother
- relating to or derived from one's mother
- Of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother; motherly.
- (anatomy, medicine) Derived from the mother as opposed to the foetus during pregnancy.
- Related through the mother, or her side of the family.