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noun
- An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
- A handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; an individual or action that exposes others to greater risk.
- Any item recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet.
- The condition of being susceptible to something.
- A person on a team that is more of a hindrance than a help.
- The likelihood of something happening.
adj
- Owed or owing.
- Appropriate.
- Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
- Scheduled; expected.
- On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass
- Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
noun
- That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
- Deserved acknowledgment.
- Right; just title or claim.
- A membership fee.
adv
verb
- be liable or accountable
- react verbally
- respond to a signal
- give the correct answer or solution to
- understand the meaning of
- give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- match or correspond
- be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of
- react to a stimulus or command
noun
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- the speech act of replying to a question
- the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims
- a nonverbal reaction
adj
- Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
- Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
- Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
- Willing to comply; easily led.
- Liable to the legal authority of (something).
noun
- The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
- A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
- The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
- The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success.
- The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual.
noun
- The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
- Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
- Trustworthiness, reliability.
- That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
- Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
- Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
verb
- To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
- To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
- To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
- to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
- To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
- To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
- To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
- To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
adj
noun
- The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
- The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping.
- Good-faith acceptance of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
- An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
verb
- To assume or take responsibility for a debt or other obligation.
- To make something certain.
- To give an assurance that something will be done right.
noun
- The person to whom a guarantee is made.
- A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
- A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
- More specifically, a written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty
- Anything that assures a certain outcome.
verb
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- demand payment
- move quickly and violently
- file a formal charge against
- make an accusatory claim
- fill or load to capacity
- enter a certain amount as a charge
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- give over to another for care or safekeeping
- pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- place a heraldic bearing on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
- direct into a position for use
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- instruct or command with authority
- attribute responsibility to
- set or ask for a certain price
- cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- saturate
noun
- an impetuous rush toward someone or something
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- the price charged for some article or service
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- a person committed to your care
- financial liabilities (such as a tax)
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- request for payment of a debt
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
verb
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- stick to firmly
- create social or emotional ties
- make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope
- wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose
- secure with or as if with ropes
- provide with a binding
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- form a chemical bond with
- cause to be constipated
noun
verb
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- organize or be responsible for
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- contain or hold; have within
- have room for; hold without crowding
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- support or hold in a certain manner
- be valid, applicable, or true
- assert or affirm
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- protect against a challenge or attack
- hold the attention of
- remain committed to
- resist or confront with resistance
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- stop dealing with
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- keep from departing
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- aim, point, or direct
- declare to be
- be in accord; be in agreement
- keep from exhaling or expelling
noun
- the act of grasping
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- time during which some action is awaited
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- a stronghold
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
noun
- the state of being obligated to do or pay something
- the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
- a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor
- a written promise to repay a debt
- a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply
noun
- Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends.
- A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process.
- The act of releasing someone from debt or other obligation; acquittance.
- Avoidance of danger; deliverance.
verb
- To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- To steal.
- To adopt.
- To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
- To earn by bad behavior.
- Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable.
- To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
noun
noun
- Moral or political duty or obligation.
- An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
- A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
- Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
- A physical connection which binds, a band.
- A peasant; churl.
- A binding agreement, a covenant.
- A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
- In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
- A bail bond.
- A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
- A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
- A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
- Any constraining or cementing force or material.
- A mortgage.
verb
- To cause to adhere (one material with another).
- To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
- To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
- To bail out by means of a bail bond.
- To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
- To form a friendship or emotional connection.
- To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
- To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
- To form a chemical compound with.
adj
noun
- One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
- A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
- A Jacobite who favoured the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.
- One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
verb
- To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
- To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.
- To enter on the credit side of an account book.
- To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
- To credit.
- To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
- To believe; to put trust in.
- To recognize as outstanding.
adj
- Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
- Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
- Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
- Acting in an indirect way.
- Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
- Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
- Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
- Coming or directed along the side.
noun
- Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
- A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
- A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
- A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
noun
- giving in acknowledgment of obligation
- a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.
- an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious
- the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance
- a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
- a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall
- perspective drawing of an architect's design
verb
- Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
- To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
- To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
- To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
- To put a saddle on an animal.
- To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
- Of a person: to get into a saddle.
noun
- The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”)
- Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”)
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
- In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
- A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
- Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”)
- A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
- The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
- Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”)
- A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
- The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
- A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- The raised floorboard in a doorway.
- Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”)
- A small sloped or tapered structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
- A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
- An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
- A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
verb
- To have as an assignment or responsibility.
- To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
- To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
- To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
- To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To provide insurance coverage for.
- To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
- To act as a replacement.
- To deal with or include someone or something.
- To be enough money for.
- To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
- To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
- To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
- To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
- To protect or control (a piece or square).
noun
- The top sheet of a bed.
- A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
- The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
- A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
- A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
- Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
- An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
- A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
- The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
- An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
- A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
- A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
- The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
- A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- A cover charge.
- In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
- A lid.
- In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
adj
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