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adj
- Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
- In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
- Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
- Authentic, real, genuine.
- Relating to hereditary rights.
- Belonging or relating to the legitimate theater.
noun
verb
verb
- bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- make a request for something
- issue commands or orders for
- bring order to or into
- place in a certain order
- appoint to a clerical posts
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- assign a rank or rating to
noun
- (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
- a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
- established customary state (especially of society)
- logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
- a condition of regular or proper arrangement
- a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
- a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- a body of rules followed by an assembly
- a group of person living under a religious rule
- (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
- a request for something to be made, supplied, or served
- (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans
- the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
adj
- Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.
- Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
- Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.
- Genuine - as distinguished from efficient or regular - sacrament.
- Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
- Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
adj
- Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
noun
adj
- conforming to definitive criteria
- accurately placed or thrown
- devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth
- worthy of being depended on
- not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
- rightly so called
- determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles
- having a legally established claim
- in tune; accurate in pitch
- accurately fitted; level
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noun
- Correctness, conforming to reality or rules.
- Judgment and punishment of a party who has allegedly wronged another.
- A title given to judges of certain courts; capitalized when placed before a name.
- The state or characteristic of being just or fair.
- The civil power dealing with law.
- The ideal of fairness, impartiality, etc., especially with regard to the punishment of wrongdoing.
adj
noun
- The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
- A numbered provision within such kind of law.
- A type of law made by the executive branch of government, usually by virtue of a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
- Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
- A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
- A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
- Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
noun
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
- A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
- A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called a cannon.
- Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
- The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
- In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
- A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
- A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
adj
- Consistent; conforming to one standard.
- Unvarying; all the same.
- (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes.
- with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
- Composed of a single macromolecular species.
noun
- A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.
- A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
verb
adj
- conforming to a standard or pattern
- often used as intensifiers
- regularly scheduled for fixed times
- in accord with regular practice or procedure
- occurring at fixed intervals
- relating to a person who does something regularly
- symmetrically arranged
- not deviating from what is normal
- officially full-time
adj
- in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
- (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces
- (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula
- not constipated
noun
noun
- Strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc.
- One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.
- The ontological view of mathematics as a mere collection of string manipulation rules.
- The tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in serialism.
- A particular mathematical or scientific theory or description of a given state or effect.
- A formal expression of a grammar; a formal grammar; a set of rules of syntax that, without reference to semantics, determine whether a sequence of symbols is a well-formed sentence in a given formal language.
- An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception.
verb
- To enforce norms or standards upon.
- To clean up an area.
- To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
noun
- The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
- Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
- A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
- A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
- A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
- People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
- Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
adj
- Being in accord with established forms.
- Official.
- Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to their meaning.
- Relating to formation.
- Organized; well-structured and planned.
- Relating to the form or structure of something.
- Ceremonial or traditional.
- Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
noun
adj
- Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Not correctly deduced.
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
- Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
- Born to unmarried parents.
- Not in accordance with the law.
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noun
- making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it
- additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
- information that confirms or verifies
- a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism
- a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church
verb
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- To get acquainted with someone.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To play a match.
- To balance or come out correct.
- To come together in conflict.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
noun
- The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- A meeting.
- A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
adj
- Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate.
- Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly
- Good, appealing, appropriate.
- Attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect.
- Fine, clear and bright.
- Ample; moderately large.
- Statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way.
- Generous or noble in character.
adj
- Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Large in magnitude.
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- Plump.
- Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- Vaulted.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
- Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
noun
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A circular dance.
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- A round-top.
- A round of beef.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- A stage in a competition.
- A stage or level of a game.
- The hindquarters of a bovine.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- The play after each deal.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
verb
- To go round, pass, go past.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
- To shape something into a curve.
- To turn past a boundary.
- To advance to home plate.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- To do ward rounds.
- To become shaped into a curve.
- To finish; to complete; to fill out.
adj
noun
- a display of bad temper
- a sudden uncontrollable attack
- the manner in which something fits
- a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
verb
- be agreeable or acceptable to
- be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
- make fit
- insert or adjust several objects or people
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- conform to some shape or size
- provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- make correspond or harmonize
adj
verb
- to conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like)
- to think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of
- to confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone)
- to make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.)
noun
- a privilege
- recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful)
- a token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen
- the center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point)
- the state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity
- (courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank
- a cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
- a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended
- the privilege of going first
- In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
- the right to play one's ball before one's opponent.
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noun
- A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
- A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
- A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
- Bernoulli's Principle
- An original faculty or endowment.
- A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
- A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
- Moral rule or aspect.
adj
- Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous.
- Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable.
- Eigen-; designating a function or value which is an eigenfunction or eigenvalue.
- Belonging to oneself or itself; own.
- Being strictly part of some other thing (not necessarily explicitly mentioned, but of definitional importance), and not being the thing itself.
- In the strict sense; within the strict definition or core (of a specified place, taxonomic order, idea, etc).
- Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are usually written with an initial capital letter.
- Pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person; particular.
- Excellent, of high quality; such as the specific person or thing should ideally be. (Now often merged with later senses.)
- Attractive, elegant.
- In the very strictest sense of the word.
- Portrayed in natural or usual coloration, as opposed to conventional tinctures.
- Utter, complete.
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