English words for 'Initialism of Railway Mail Service.'
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- Initialism of postal service.
- (nautical) Initialism of paddle steamer.
- (law enforcement, Commonwealth) Initialism of police sergeant, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- Initialism of power supply.
- (government) Initialism of public service(s).
- (video games) Initialism of PlayStation.
- (education) Initialism of public school.
- Initialism of post scriptum, postscriptum, or postscript, initialism written at the end of a text as a footnote.
- (organic chemistry) polystyrene
- Short for metric horsepower.
- Initialism of Perlman syndrome.
- (sports) Initialism of parallel slalom.
- a note appended to a letter after the signature
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- (rail transport, countable) Initialism of travelling post office.
- (medicine) Initialism of thyroid peroxidase.
- (law) Initialism of temporary protective order.
- Initialism of thermoplastic olefin.
- (medicine, law) Acronym of treatment, payment, and (healthcare) operations.
- (countable) Initialism of tree preservation order.
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- Initialism of postmaster.
- Initialism of project manager.
- Initialism of prime minister.
- Initialism of product manager.
- Initialism of post mortem.
- Initialism of portfolio manager.
- Initialism of push money.
- Initialism of program manager.
- Initialism of perfect match.
- Initialism of pilot monitoring.
- Initialism of performance management.
- (knitting) Initialism of place marker.
- Initialism of price match.
- (Internet) Initialism of personal message.
- Initialism of private message.
- Initialism of project management.
- (electronics) Initialism of permanent magnet.
- Initialism of precious metal.
- Initialism of particulate matter; followed by a subscripted number representing the size of the particles in micrometres (μm).
- the period between noon and midnight
- modulation of the phase of the carrier wave
- an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
- the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom
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- (rail transport) Initialism of automatic train operation.
- (military, Ukraine) Acronym of anti-terrorist operation.
- (aviation) Acronym of assisted take-off.
- (military) Acronym of ammunition technical officer.
- (computer security, finance) Initialism of account take over.
- (astronautics) Acronym of abort to orbit.
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- Initialism of post office.
- (business) Initialism of purchase order.
- Initialism of playoff.
- (military) Initialism of petty officer.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of probation officer.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police officer.
- Initialism of principal officer.
- an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
- a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
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- (UK, rail transport) Initialism of advanced passenger train.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of acyl protein thioesterase.
- (US) Abbreviation of apartment, preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Apt. and apt..
- (cybersecurity) Initialism of advanced persistent threat.
- Initialism of arbitrage pricing theory.
- (UK, healthcare) Initialism of anatomical pathology technologist.
- Initialism of automation presses tooling.
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- Initialism of Alabama Public Television.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced packaging tool: a package management system used by Debian and Debian-based distributions, also used by other Linux distributions.
- (computing) Initialism of automatically programmed tool: a high-level language for numerically controlled machine tools.
- Initialism of American Public Television.
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- Initialism of magnetoresistance
- Initialism of magnetic resonance
- (US military) Acronym of memorandum for the record, memorandum for record, memo for the record, or memo for record.
- (prison system) Initialism of mandatory release.
- Initialism of Master of the Rolls, as a postnominal.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of mineralocorticoid receptor.
- (sports) Initialism of meeting record, the best performance at all occurrences of a particular athletic meeting.
- Initialism of mental retardation, a deprecated former term for intellectual disability.
- (gaming) Initialism of magic resistance.
- (computing) Initialism of mixed reality.
- (software engineering) Initialism of merge request.
- Initialism of mortality rate.
- (pharmacology, medicine) Initialism of modified release.
- (cardiology) Initialism of mitral regurgitation.
- Clipping of MRI (“magnetic resonance image/imager/imaging”).
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- Initialism of Resident Magistrate.
- Initialism of Routemaster, a type of London bus.
- Abbreviation of room; often visible on moving boxes.
- (military) Initialism of radio material.
- (religion) Initialism of religious movement.
- Initialism of rural municipality.
- Initialism of regional municipality.
- (typography) Initialism of right margin.
- Initialism of ring modulation.
- (historical) Initialism of reichsmark.
- (historical) Initialism of Roman month.
- (Mormonism) Initialism of returned missionary.
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- (business) Initialism of express mail service, a type of international express mail services.
- (business) Initialism of electronics manufacturing service, a type of OEM (original equipment manufacturer) service.
- (US, medicine) Initialism of emergency medical service or emergency medical services, an organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is to provide emergency prehospital care to the public; the care that it provides.
- Initialism of environmental management system.
- Initialism of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome.
- (historical, computing) Initialism of Expanded Memory Specification.
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- a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system
- The postal service or system in general.
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings
- (uncountable, history) Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.
- (chiefly Scotland) A monetary payment or tribute.
- (countable, especially India) An email message.
- (now regional) A bag or wallet.
- Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
- A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
- A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
- (uncountable, by extension, now fiction, fantasy) Armour consisting of small plates linked together.
- (historical) An old French coin worth half a denier.
- (chiefly Scotland) Rent.
- (nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
- (uncountable) Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail).
- The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
- (chiefly US, uncountable) The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
- (uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
- (chiefly Scotland) Tax.
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- (telecommunications, historical) Initialism of post/postal office telephone service/system
- (telecommunications) Acronym of plain old telephone service/system: the old analog landline circuit-switched telephone network
- (acronym, medicine) Abbreviation of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
- (telecommunications) Acronym of publicly offered telephone service/system: the public telephone network
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- (computing) Initialism of mail submission agent.
- (aviation) Initialism of minimum safe altitude.
- (law) Initialism of master service agreement.
- Initialism of Master Settlement Agreement.
- (US, demography) Initialism of metropolitan statistical area.
- (UK, Ireland) Initialism of motorway service area.
- (pathology) Initialism of multiple system atrophy.
- Abbreviation of mechanically steered array.
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- (Malaysia, Singapore, aviation, historical) Initialism of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines.
- Initialism of Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha).
- (US) Initialism of Michigan Statutes Annotated.
- (Java programming language) Initialism of Mobile Service Architecture.
- Initialism of Modern South Arabian.
- Initialism of Middle Stone Age.
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- (medicine) Initialism of computed radiography.
- (sports) Initialism of Circuit Record.
- (Philippines) Initialism of comfort room (“bathroom; restroom; washroom; water closet”).
- Initialism of county road.
- (medicine) Initialism of complete response.
- (India) Initialism of class representative.
- (sports) Initialism of Commonwealth Record.
- (medicine) Initialism of complete remission.
- (sports) Initialism of championship record or competition record.
- Initialism of community resolution.
- (sports) Initialism of Championship Record.
- (sports) Initialism of Competition Record.
- (physiology) Initialism of conditioned reflex.
- (US politics, law) Initialism of continuing resolution.
- (linguistics) Initialism of clarification request.
- Initialism of country route.
- (sports) Initialism of Course Record.
- (nutrition) Initialism of caloric restriction.
- (accounting) Credit.
- (psychology) Initialism of conditioned response.
- Initialism of consciousness-raising.
- (sports) Initialism of Canadian Record.
- (computing) Initialism of carriage return.
- (sports) Initialism of Cup Record.
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- (medicine) Initialism of Laurence-Moon syndrome.
- (astronomy) Initialism of low mass star.
- (education) Initialism of learning management system: a software system for delivering, tracking and managing training or education.
- (video games) Initialism of last man standing.
- (education, uncountable) Initialism of local management of schools.
- (mathematics) Initialism of least mean squares.
- Initialism of Lenz microphthalmia syndrome
- Initialism of Lenz-Majewski syndrome.
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- (rail transport) Initialism of automatic train protection.
- (aviation) Initialism of airline transport pilot.
- (law, project management) Initialism of authorization to proceed.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of adenosine triphosphate.
- (finance) Initialism of average transaction price.
- a nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue; the major source of energy for cellular reactions
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- (countable) Initialism of state route.
- (countable) Initialism of scoping review.
- (countable) Initialism of systematic review.
- (law, politics) Initialism of state resolution.
- (uncountable) Initialism of speculative realism.
- (uncountable) Initialism of semen retention.
- (countable) Initialism of state road.
- (uncountable) Initialism of special relativity.
- (countable) Initialism of speculative realist.
- (law, politics) Initialism of senate resolution.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of speech recognition.
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- (rail transport, UK) Ellipsis of goods train.
- (slang) The male genitals.
- (informal, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.
- plural of good
- (business, economics) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
- (UK, transport) Freight, as opposed to passengers.
- (slang) The female body, especially when seen as desirable.
- (informal) A person or animal, etc., with reference to its characteristics.
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- (US) Initialism of railroad.
- (US) Initialism of rural route used when addressing mail.
- Initialism of role reversal.
- (information technology) Initialism of resource record.
- Initialism of Rolls-Royce.
- (cycling) Initialism of road race.
- Initialism of reverse racism.
- Initialism of real reality.
- Initialism of right rear, a location in a square or rectangular layout such as the tires on an automobile or the heating elements on a stovetop.
- Initialism of Riva-Roccin, a blood pressure measurer device.
- (statistics, epidemiology) Initialism of relative risk.
- Abbreviation of rear, where brevity is desired.
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- (rail transport) Ellipsis of starter signal.
- (golf) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
- A dog that rouses game.
- (historical, British) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- (baseball) A starting pitcher.
- Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
- A yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- any new participant in some activity
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
- a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning
- the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition
- a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough
- an electric motor for starting an engine
- food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course)
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- (historical) A mailcoach.
- (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- (countable, music) A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- (countable, informal) A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- (uncountable, music) Witch house music.
- (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
- (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- (informal, uncommon) Clipping of dragon.
- (countable, slang) A street.
- (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- (uncountable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- (countable, slang) A drag king or drag queen.
- (countable, slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- (slang) A prison sentence of three months.
- (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- (uncountable, slang, by analogy) Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- something tedious and boring
- the act of dragging (pulling with force)
- clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- something that slows or delays progress
- the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
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- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
- (chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- (informal, intransitive) To inhale from a cigarette, cigar, etc.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- (informal, intransitive) To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- (intransitive, music) To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To fish with a dragnet.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- (graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- to lag or linger behind
- suck in or take (air)
- move slowly and as if with great effort
- use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it
- proceed for an extended period of time
- persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
- pull, as against a resistance
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- draw slowly or heavily
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- walk without lifting the feet
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- (telecommunications) Initialism of postal telephone and telegraph.
- (oil industry) Initialism of Partitioning tracer test.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of push-to-transmit.
- Initialism of protein truncation test.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of press-to-transmit.
- Initialism of platform terminal transmitter.
- (video games) Initialism of Pizza Time Theatre, an old name for Chuck E. Cheese.
- (hematology) Initialism of partial thromboplastin time.
- (aviation) Initialism of part task trainer (See Flight simulator at Wikipedia).
- Initialism of professional technical trainer.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of push-to-talk.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of press-to-talk.
- (chemistry) Initialism of polytrimethylene terephthalate.
- Initialism of pick-to-tote.
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- (informal) A service on a railway line.
- (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
- A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
- A series of electrical pulses.
- A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
- A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
- (figuratively, poetic) A group or class of people.
- The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
- A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
- A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
- (computing) A software release schedule.
- A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
- (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.
- A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
- The tail of a bird.
- (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
- A mechanical (originally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
- A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
- (poetic) The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
- public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive
- wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
- piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor
- a series of consequences wrought by an event
- a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
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- (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
- (intransitive) To proceed in sequence.
- (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
- (transitive, machine learning) To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
- (transitive, video games) To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).
- (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
- (intransitive) To practice an ability.
- (transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
- (transitive, mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
- (transitive) To transport (something) by train.
- exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it
- teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports
- travel by rail or train
- create by training and teaching
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- educate for a future role or function
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- (rail transport, UK) An instance of a signal passed at danger.
- (military) Initialism of self-propelled air defense; a self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicle.
- (plant science) A relative measurement of the amount of chlorophyll present in a leaf, based on measurements with a SPAD meter produced by Minolta.
- (UK politics, informal) Alternative form of spad (“special advisor in government”).
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- Initialism of Australasian Railway Association.
- Initialism of Australian Retailers Association.
- Initialism of Awards and Recognition Association.
- (nautical, military) the Argentine Navy (Armada de la República Argentina)
- Initialism of Automotive Recyclers Association.
- Initialism of Aracruz Cellulose S.A..
- Initialism of Applied Research Associates.
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- Initialism of subpostmaster.
- (education, Malaysia, countable) Initialism of Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (Malaysian Certificate of Education, certificate for secondary school students in Malaysia)
- (microscopy, countable) Initialism of scanning probe microscope.
- (economics, countable) Initialism of supplemental poverty measure.
- (biology, countable) Initialism of suspended particulate matter.
- (microscopy, uncountable) Initialism of scanning probe microscopy.
- (electrical engineering, countable) Initialism of surface permanent magnet.
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- (postal) Initialism of mail code.
- Initialism of military cross.
- (textiles) Initialism of matching colour.
- Initialism of motorcycle club.
- Initialism of medical center.
- (knitting) Initialism of main colour.
- Initialism of medical certificate.
- (astronomy) Initialism of Mars-crosser.
- (informal) Initialism of madarchod.
- Initialism of master of ceremonies.
- Initialism of main character.
- (medicine, pathology) Initialism of molluscum contagiosum.
- Initialism of methylene chloride (“dichloromethane”).
- Initialism of member of congress.
- (electronics, audio) Initialism of moving coil, a type of phono cartridge.
- Initialism of male circumcision.
- (astrology) Initialism of medium coeli, the midheaven or highest point in the sky. Contrasted to Imum Coeli.
- Initialism of medical college.
- (computing) Initialism of movie clip.
- (music) Initialism of music cassette.
- (music, slang) A rapper.
- a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
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- (rail transport, UK, countable) Initialism of traction maintenance depot.
- (pathology, uncountable) Initialism of temporomandibular joint dysfunction.
- (engineering, architecture, countable) Initialism of tuned-mass damper.
- (offensive, Internet slang) Initialism of total Muslim death
- (military, uncountable) Initialism of theat{er/re} missile defen{s/c}e.
- (offensive, Internet slang) Initialism of total malaun death
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- (India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metropolitan rail transport.
- (computing) Initialism of malicious (software) removal tool.
- (biology, countable) Initialism of mitochondrial replacement technique
- (India, Thailand, South Korea, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metropolitan rapid transport.
- (biology, uncountable) Initialism of mitochondrial replacement techniques
- (Thailand, India, South Korea, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metropolitan rapid transit.
- (UK, Singapore, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metro rapid transit.
- (UK, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metro rapid transport.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of mitochondrial replacement therapies
- (Philippines, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metropolitan rail transit.
- (UK, Singapore, Philippines, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of mass rail transport.
- (India, Philippines, Singapore, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metro rail transport.
- (UK, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of mass rapid transit.
- (sciences) Initialism of magnetic resonance tomography.
- (medicine, countable) Initialism of mitochondrial replacement therapy
- (Singapore, Malaysia, India, Thailand, transport, uncountable) Initialism of mass rapid transport.
- (UK, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of mass rail transit.
- (Philippines, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metro rail transit.
- (UK, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, India, transport, uncountable) A form of heavy-rail rapid-transit system that utilizes modern Electric Multiple Units to transport commuters between stations.
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- Initialism of postal service.
- (nautical) Initialism of paddle steamer.
- (law enforcement, Commonwealth) Initialism of police sergeant, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- Initialism of power supply.
- (government) Initialism of public service(s).
- (video games) Initialism of PlayStation.
- (education) Initialism of public school.
- Initialism of post scriptum, postscriptum, or postscript, initialism written at the end of a text as a footnote.
- (organic chemistry) polystyrene
- Short for metric horsepower.
- Initialism of Perlman syndrome.
- (sports) Initialism of parallel slalom.
- a note appended to a letter after the signature
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- (rail transport, countable) Initialism of travelling post office.
- (medicine) Initialism of thyroid peroxidase.
- (law) Initialism of temporary protective order.
- Initialism of thermoplastic olefin.
- (medicine, law) Acronym of treatment, payment, and (healthcare) operations.
- (countable) Initialism of tree preservation order.
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- Initialism of postmaster.
- Initialism of project manager.
- Initialism of prime minister.
- Initialism of product manager.
- Initialism of post mortem.
- Initialism of portfolio manager.
- Initialism of push money.
- Initialism of program manager.
- Initialism of perfect match.
- Initialism of pilot monitoring.
- Initialism of performance management.
- (knitting) Initialism of place marker.
- Initialism of price match.
- (Internet) Initialism of personal message.
- Initialism of private message.
- Initialism of project management.
- (electronics) Initialism of permanent magnet.
- Initialism of precious metal.
- Initialism of particulate matter; followed by a subscripted number representing the size of the particles in micrometres (μm).
- the period between noon and midnight
- modulation of the phase of the carrier wave
- an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
- the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom
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- (rail transport) Initialism of automatic train operation.
- (military, Ukraine) Acronym of anti-terrorist operation.
- (aviation) Acronym of assisted take-off.
- (military) Acronym of ammunition technical officer.
- (computer security, finance) Initialism of account take over.
- (astronautics) Acronym of abort to orbit.
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- Initialism of post office.
- (business) Initialism of purchase order.
- Initialism of playoff.
- (military) Initialism of petty officer.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of probation officer.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police officer.
- Initialism of principal officer.
- an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
- a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
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- (UK, rail transport) Initialism of advanced passenger train.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of acyl protein thioesterase.
- (US) Abbreviation of apartment, preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Apt. and apt..
- (cybersecurity) Initialism of advanced persistent threat.
- Initialism of arbitrage pricing theory.
- (UK, healthcare) Initialism of anatomical pathology technologist.
- Initialism of automation presses tooling.
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- Initialism of Alabama Public Television.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced packaging tool: a package management system used by Debian and Debian-based distributions, also used by other Linux distributions.
- (computing) Initialism of automatically programmed tool: a high-level language for numerically controlled machine tools.
- Initialism of American Public Television.
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- (business) Initialism of express mail service, a type of international express mail services.
- (business) Initialism of electronics manufacturing service, a type of OEM (original equipment manufacturer) service.
- (US, medicine) Initialism of emergency medical service or emergency medical services, an organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is to provide emergency prehospital care to the public; the care that it provides.
- Initialism of environmental management system.
- Initialism of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome.
- (historical, computing) Initialism of Expanded Memory Specification.
noun
- a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system
- The postal service or system in general.
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings
- (uncountable, history) Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.
- (chiefly Scotland) A monetary payment or tribute.
- (countable, especially India) An email message.
- (now regional) A bag or wallet.
- Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
- A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
- A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
- (uncountable, by extension, now fiction, fantasy) Armour consisting of small plates linked together.
- (historical) An old French coin worth half a denier.
- (chiefly Scotland) Rent.
- (nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
- (uncountable) Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail).
- The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
- (chiefly US, uncountable) The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
- (uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
- (chiefly Scotland) Tax.
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- (telecommunications, historical) Initialism of post/postal office telephone service/system
- (telecommunications) Acronym of plain old telephone service/system: the old analog landline circuit-switched telephone network
- (acronym, medicine) Abbreviation of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
- (telecommunications) Acronym of publicly offered telephone service/system: the public telephone network
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- (computing) Initialism of mail submission agent.
- (aviation) Initialism of minimum safe altitude.
- (law) Initialism of master service agreement.
- Initialism of Master Settlement Agreement.
- (US, demography) Initialism of metropolitan statistical area.
- (UK, Ireland) Initialism of motorway service area.
- (pathology) Initialism of multiple system atrophy.
- Abbreviation of mechanically steered array.
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- (Malaysia, Singapore, aviation, historical) Initialism of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines.
- Initialism of Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha).
- (US) Initialism of Michigan Statutes Annotated.
- (Java programming language) Initialism of Mobile Service Architecture.
- Initialism of Modern South Arabian.
- Initialism of Middle Stone Age.
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- (rail transport) Initialism of automatic train protection.
- (aviation) Initialism of airline transport pilot.
- (law, project management) Initialism of authorization to proceed.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of adenosine triphosphate.
- (finance) Initialism of average transaction price.
- a nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue; the major source of energy for cellular reactions
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- (rail transport, UK) Ellipsis of goods train.
- (slang) The male genitals.
- (informal, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.
- plural of good
- (business, economics) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
- (UK, transport) Freight, as opposed to passengers.
- (slang) The female body, especially when seen as desirable.
- (informal) A person or animal, etc., with reference to its characteristics.
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- (US) Initialism of railroad.
- (US) Initialism of rural route used when addressing mail.
- Initialism of role reversal.
- (information technology) Initialism of resource record.
- Initialism of Rolls-Royce.
- (cycling) Initialism of road race.
- Initialism of reverse racism.
- Initialism of real reality.
- Initialism of right rear, a location in a square or rectangular layout such as the tires on an automobile or the heating elements on a stovetop.
- Initialism of Riva-Roccin, a blood pressure measurer device.
- (statistics, epidemiology) Initialism of relative risk.
- Abbreviation of rear, where brevity is desired.
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- (rail transport) Ellipsis of starter signal.
- (golf) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
- A dog that rouses game.
- (historical, British) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- (baseball) A starting pitcher.
- Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
- A yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- any new participant in some activity
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
- a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning
- the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition
- a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough
- an electric motor for starting an engine
- food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course)
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- (historical) A mailcoach.
- (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- (countable, music) A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- (countable, informal) A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- (uncountable, music) Witch house music.
- (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
- (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- (informal, uncommon) Clipping of dragon.
- (countable, slang) A street.
- (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- (uncountable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- (countable, slang) A drag king or drag queen.
- (countable, slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- (slang) A prison sentence of three months.
- (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- (uncountable, slang, by analogy) Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- something tedious and boring
- the act of dragging (pulling with force)
- clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- something that slows or delays progress
- the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
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- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
- (chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- (informal, intransitive) To inhale from a cigarette, cigar, etc.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- (informal, intransitive) To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- (intransitive, music) To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To fish with a dragnet.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- (graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- to lag or linger behind
- suck in or take (air)
- move slowly and as if with great effort
- use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it
- proceed for an extended period of time
- persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
- pull, as against a resistance
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- draw slowly or heavily
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- walk without lifting the feet
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- (telecommunications) Initialism of postal telephone and telegraph.
- (oil industry) Initialism of Partitioning tracer test.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of push-to-transmit.
- Initialism of protein truncation test.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of press-to-transmit.
- Initialism of platform terminal transmitter.
- (video games) Initialism of Pizza Time Theatre, an old name for Chuck E. Cheese.
- (hematology) Initialism of partial thromboplastin time.
- (aviation) Initialism of part task trainer (See Flight simulator at Wikipedia).
- Initialism of professional technical trainer.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of push-to-talk.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of press-to-talk.
- (chemistry) Initialism of polytrimethylene terephthalate.
- Initialism of pick-to-tote.
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- (informal) A service on a railway line.
- (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
- A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
- A series of electrical pulses.
- A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
- A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
- (figuratively, poetic) A group or class of people.
- The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
- A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
- A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
- (computing) A software release schedule.
- A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
- (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.
- A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
- The tail of a bird.
- (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
- A mechanical (originally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
- A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
- (poetic) The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
- public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive
- wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
- piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor
- a series of consequences wrought by an event
- a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
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- (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
- (intransitive) To proceed in sequence.
- (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
- (transitive, machine learning) To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
- (transitive, video games) To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).
- (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
- (intransitive) To practice an ability.
- (transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
- (transitive, mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
- (transitive) To transport (something) by train.
- exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it
- teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports
- travel by rail or train
- create by training and teaching
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- educate for a future role or function
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- Initialism of subpostmaster.
- (education, Malaysia, countable) Initialism of Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (Malaysian Certificate of Education, certificate for secondary school students in Malaysia)
- (microscopy, countable) Initialism of scanning probe microscope.
- (economics, countable) Initialism of supplemental poverty measure.
- (biology, countable) Initialism of suspended particulate matter.
- (microscopy, uncountable) Initialism of scanning probe microscopy.
- (electrical engineering, countable) Initialism of surface permanent magnet.
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- (postal) Initialism of mail code.
- Initialism of military cross.
- (textiles) Initialism of matching colour.
- Initialism of motorcycle club.
- Initialism of medical center.
- (knitting) Initialism of main colour.
- Initialism of medical certificate.
- (astronomy) Initialism of Mars-crosser.
- (informal) Initialism of madarchod.
- Initialism of master of ceremonies.
- Initialism of main character.
- (medicine, pathology) Initialism of molluscum contagiosum.
- Initialism of methylene chloride (“dichloromethane”).
- Initialism of member of congress.
- (electronics, audio) Initialism of moving coil, a type of phono cartridge.
- Initialism of male circumcision.
- (astrology) Initialism of medium coeli, the midheaven or highest point in the sky. Contrasted to Imum Coeli.
- Initialism of medical college.
- (computing) Initialism of movie clip.
- (music) Initialism of music cassette.
- (music, slang) A rapper.
- a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
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- (rail transport, UK, countable) Initialism of traction maintenance depot.
- (pathology, uncountable) Initialism of temporomandibular joint dysfunction.
- (engineering, architecture, countable) Initialism of tuned-mass damper.
- (offensive, Internet slang) Initialism of total Muslim death
- (military, uncountable) Initialism of theat{er/re} missile defen{s/c}e.
- (offensive, Internet slang) Initialism of total malaun death
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- (India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metropolitan rail transport.
- (computing) Initialism of malicious (software) removal tool.
- (biology, countable) Initialism of mitochondrial replacement technique
- (India, Thailand, South Korea, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metropolitan rapid transport.
- (biology, uncountable) Initialism of mitochondrial replacement techniques
- (Thailand, India, South Korea, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metropolitan rapid transit.
- (UK, Singapore, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metro rapid transit.
- (UK, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metro rapid transport.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of mitochondrial replacement therapies
- (Philippines, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metropolitan rail transit.
- (UK, Singapore, Philippines, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of mass rail transport.
- (India, Philippines, Singapore, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metro rail transport.
- (UK, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of mass rapid transit.
- (sciences) Initialism of magnetic resonance tomography.
- (medicine, countable) Initialism of mitochondrial replacement therapy
- (Singapore, Malaysia, India, Thailand, transport, uncountable) Initialism of mass rapid transport.
- (UK, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of mass rail transit.
- (Philippines, India, transport, uncountable) Initialism of metro rail transit.
- (UK, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, India, transport, uncountable) A form of heavy-rail rapid-transit system that utilizes modern Electric Multiple Units to transport commuters between stations.