English words for 'Initialism of existential risk.'
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noun
- (music, radio format, US, uncountable) Initialism of album-oriented radio.
- (US, military) Initialism of area of responsibility.
- (music, uncountable) Initialism of album-oriented rock.
- (US, military, nautical) Initialism of auxiliary replenishment oiler.
- Initialism of address of record.
- (syntax) Initialism of adjective ordering restrictions.
- (music, uncountable) Initialism of adult-oriented rock.
adj
- of or as conceived by existentialism
- Of or relating to existentialism (“a philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices”).
- derived from experience or the experience of existence
- relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
- Of or relating to existence.
- (linguistics) Relating to part of a clause that indicates existence (for example, there is).
- Concerning the very existence of something, especially with regard to evading extinction.
- Of an assertion, etc.: assuming or suggesting the existence of something.
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noun
- a state of danger involving risk
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- A situation of serious and immediate danger.
- Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
- (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
verb
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- an obstacle on a golf course
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
- (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
verb
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent
- the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred
- (banking, finance) A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
- (uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
- (countable) A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
- (insurance) A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.
- (uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
- (insurance) An entity insured by an insurer.
- (uncountable, economics, business and engineering) The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.
- (finance) A financial product (typically an investment).
- (countable) A possible adverse event or outcome.
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- (biochemistry) Initialism of dopamine.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of domoic acid.
- (UK politics) Initialism of devolved administration.
- Initialism of dairy association.
- (anatomy) Initialism of descending aorta.
- (Internet) Initialism of domain administration.
- (anatomy) Initialism of ductus arteriosus.
- Initialism of duck's arse (“type of haircut”).
- Initialism of direct action.
- (SEO) Initialism of domain authority.
- Initialism of district attorney.
- Initialism of Doctor of Arts.
- an official prosecutor for a judicial district
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- Initialism of suicidal ideation.
- Initialism of subinspector (of police, etc).
- (Philippines, accounting, business) Initialism of sales invoice.
- (UK, Canada, Australia, law) Initialism of statutory instrument.
- Initialism of synthetic intelligence.
- Initialism of supporting information.
- (finance) Initialism of systematic internaliser.
- Initialism of special intelligence.
- (electronics) Initialism of signal integrity.
- Initialism of swarm intelligence.
- (technology) Initialism of systems integration.
- (underwater diving) Initialism of surface interval.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of self-insertion (of the author into fan fiction).
- (mechanical engineering) Initialism of spark ignition.
- Initialism of self-injury.
- a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)
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- a risk involving danger
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
- the possibility of future success
- (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
- (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
- (countable) The probability of something happening.
- (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
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- (philosophy, existentialism, Kierkegaardianism) Personal despair over the disquieting circumstances of human existence.
- (by extension) Despair, profound discontent, or a similar persistent debilitating malaise of the mind, spirit, or soul that produces a decline in mental, physical, or societal health and that may culminate in death or dissolution.
noun
- (uncountable) Initialism of speculative realism.
- (countable) Initialism of speculative realist.
- (countable) Initialism of state route.
- (countable) Initialism of scoping review.
- (countable) Initialism of systematic review.
- (law, politics) Initialism of state resolution.
- (uncountable) Initialism of semen retention.
- (countable) Initialism of state road.
- (uncountable) Initialism of special relativity.
- (law, politics) Initialism of senate resolution.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of speech recognition.
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adj
- of greater seriousness or danger
- greater in scope or effect
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees
- of the elder of two boys with the same family name
- greater in number or size or amount
- of full legal age
- of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes
- of greater importance or stature or rank
- Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism. (of a premise)
- Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees. (of a scale)
- Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
- (postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
- Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- Having a major third above the root.
- Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
- Of full legal age, having attained majority.
- Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. (of an interval)
- (medicine) Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
- (education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
- Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. (of a term)
noun
- a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
- the principal field of study of a student at a university
- a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject
- Ellipsis of major premise.
- Ellipsis of major key.
- (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
- (military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
- (education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- (campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
- (Australian rules football) A goal.
- Ellipsis of major scale.
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
- Ellipsis of major term.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of major suit.
- Ellipsis of major interval.
- (entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
- A person of legal age.
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- Initialism of to be determined.
- Initialism of to be deducted.
- Initialism of to be declared.
- Initialism of to be decided.
- Initialism of to be developed.
- Initialism of to be discovered.
- Initialism of to be done.
- Initialism of to be destroyed.
- Initialism of to be dated.
- Initialism of to be disclosed.
- Initialism of to be delivered.
- Initialism of to be derived.
- Initialism of to be discussed.
- Initialism of to be defined.
- Initialism of to be documented.
- Initialism of to be designed.
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- involving risk or danger
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without a basis in reason or fact
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
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- Initialism of Scenario Analysis.
- Initialism of surface area.
- Initialism of social anxiety.
- Initialism of sexual assault.
- Initialism of small arms.
- Initialism of Sustainability Analysis.
- Initialism of simulated annealing.
- Initialism of sex appeal.
- Initialism of salicylic acid.
- Initialism of special agent.
- Initialism of sexual abuse.
- Initialism of situational awareness or situation awareness.
- Nazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943
adj
name
- Initialism of San Andreas.
- Abbreviation of North Sulawesi: a province of Indonesia.
- Initialism of South America: a continent.
- Initialism of Stage Accompany.
- Initialism of Saudi Arabia: a country in West Asia, on the Arabian Peninsula.
- (sports) Initialism of San Antonio: a city in Texas, United States.
- Initialism of South Australia: a state of Australia.
- Initialism of South Africa: a country in Southern Africa.
- Abbreviation of Sturmabteilung.
verb
noun
- (figurative) A potentially dangerous situation.
- (by extension) A place that is so dry and hot that there is danger of fire.
- (historical) A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire.
- a dangerous state of affairs; a situation that is a potential source of violence
- a box for holding tinder
adj
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
- showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire
- (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
- desperately determined
- arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
- showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort
- Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
- Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
- In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
- Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.
- Intense; extremely intense.
- Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.
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adj
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
- causing fear or dread or terror
- (fantasy, gaming) Ferocious and of intimidating appearance, like a dire wolf.
- Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
- (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
- Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
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noun
- a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
- (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
- A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
- A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
- A daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; the encountering of risks.
- (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
verb
- put at risk
- kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole
- place a bet on
- tie or fasten to a stake
- mark with a stake
- (transitive) To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
- (cryptocurrencies) To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
- (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
- (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
- (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
noun
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something
- instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning
- a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground
- the money risked on a gamble
- A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
- (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
- A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
- A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
- (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
- A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
- That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
- (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
verb
- put at risk
- proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
- (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
- (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
- (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
- (transitive) To risk or offer.
- (intransitive, with at or on) To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success.
- (transitive) To say something; to offer an opinion.
noun
- a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit
- any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
- A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
- The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
- An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
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verb
noun
name
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- fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
- a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
- an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
- A sudden attack; a disturbance.
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- A device intended to warn or give notice of approaching danger.
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
- An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
verb
- warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
- fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
- (transitive, of a device) To produce a warning of approaching danger or necessary action; to emit a signal intended to rouse a recipient to vigilance or put them on the alert.
- (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger or necessary action; to rouse to vigilance; to put on the alert.
- (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
- (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
- (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
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- (figuratively) In a manner which produces an inward conviction of future misfortune; ominously.
- (figuratively) In a manner which is not readily visible or noticeable; inconspicuously.
- (figuratively) In a manner which is difficult to understand, or which retards or prevents understanding; incomprehensibly.
- With a dark appearance.
- (figuratively) In a manner which tends to produce uncertainty or confusion; bewilderingly.
- With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension.
- (figuratively) In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly.
- (figuratively) In a manner which retards or prevents discernment; clandestinely.
- without light
- in a dark glowering menacing manner
adj
noun
- a state of danger involving risk
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- A situation of serious and immediate danger.
- Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
- (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
verb
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- an obstacle on a golf course
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
- (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
verb
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent
- the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred
- (banking, finance) A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
- (uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
- (countable) A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
- (insurance) A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.
- (uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
- (insurance) An entity insured by an insurer.
- (uncountable, economics, business and engineering) The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.
- (finance) A financial product (typically an investment).
- (countable) A possible adverse event or outcome.
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noun
- Initialism of suicidal ideation.
- Initialism of subinspector (of police, etc).
- (Philippines, accounting, business) Initialism of sales invoice.
- (UK, Canada, Australia, law) Initialism of statutory instrument.
- Initialism of synthetic intelligence.
- Initialism of supporting information.
- (finance) Initialism of systematic internaliser.
- Initialism of special intelligence.
- (electronics) Initialism of signal integrity.
- Initialism of swarm intelligence.
- (technology) Initialism of systems integration.
- (underwater diving) Initialism of surface interval.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of self-insertion (of the author into fan fiction).
- (mechanical engineering) Initialism of spark ignition.
- Initialism of self-injury.
- a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)
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- a risk involving danger
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
- the possibility of future success
- (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
- (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
- (countable) The probability of something happening.
- (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
adj
verb
noun
- (philosophy, existentialism, Kierkegaardianism) Personal despair over the disquieting circumstances of human existence.
- (by extension) Despair, profound discontent, or a similar persistent debilitating malaise of the mind, spirit, or soul that produces a decline in mental, physical, or societal health and that may culminate in death or dissolution.
noun
- (uncountable) Initialism of speculative realism.
- (countable) Initialism of speculative realist.
- (countable) Initialism of state route.
- (countable) Initialism of scoping review.
- (countable) Initialism of systematic review.
- (law, politics) Initialism of state resolution.
- (uncountable) Initialism of semen retention.
- (countable) Initialism of state road.
- (uncountable) Initialism of special relativity.
- (law, politics) Initialism of senate resolution.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of speech recognition.
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- Initialism of Scenario Analysis.
- Initialism of surface area.
- Initialism of social anxiety.
- Initialism of sexual assault.
- Initialism of small arms.
- Initialism of Sustainability Analysis.
- Initialism of simulated annealing.
- Initialism of sex appeal.
- Initialism of salicylic acid.
- Initialism of special agent.
- Initialism of sexual abuse.
- Initialism of situational awareness or situation awareness.
- Nazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943
adj
name
- Initialism of San Andreas.
- Abbreviation of North Sulawesi: a province of Indonesia.
- Initialism of South America: a continent.
- Initialism of Stage Accompany.
- Initialism of Saudi Arabia: a country in West Asia, on the Arabian Peninsula.
- (sports) Initialism of San Antonio: a city in Texas, United States.
- Initialism of South Australia: a state of Australia.
- Initialism of South Africa: a country in Southern Africa.
- Abbreviation of Sturmabteilung.
verb
noun
- (figurative) A potentially dangerous situation.
- (by extension) A place that is so dry and hot that there is danger of fire.
- (historical) A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire.
- a dangerous state of affairs; a situation that is a potential source of violence
- a box for holding tinder
noun
verb
noun
name
noun
- fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
- a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
- an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
- A sudden attack; a disturbance.
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- A device intended to warn or give notice of approaching danger.
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
- An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
verb
- warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
- fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
- (transitive, of a device) To produce a warning of approaching danger or necessary action; to emit a signal intended to rouse a recipient to vigilance or put them on the alert.
- (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger or necessary action; to rouse to vigilance; to put on the alert.
- (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
- (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
- (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
noun
verb
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- an obstacle on a golf course
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
- (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
verb
verb
noun
- a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
- (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
- A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
- A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
- A daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; the encountering of risks.
- (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
verb
- put at risk
- kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole
- place a bet on
- tie or fasten to a stake
- mark with a stake
- (transitive) To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
- (cryptocurrencies) To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
- (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
- (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
- (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
noun
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something
- instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning
- a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground
- the money risked on a gamble
- A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
- (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
- A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
- A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
- (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
- A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
- That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
- (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
verb
- put at risk
- proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
- (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
- (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
- (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
- (transitive) To risk or offer.
- (intransitive, with at or on) To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success.
- (transitive) To say something; to offer an opinion.
noun
- a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit
- any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
- A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
- The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
- An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
adv
- (figuratively) In a manner which produces an inward conviction of future misfortune; ominously.
- (figuratively) In a manner which is not readily visible or noticeable; inconspicuously.
- (figuratively) In a manner which is difficult to understand, or which retards or prevents understanding; incomprehensibly.
- With a dark appearance.
- (figuratively) In a manner which tends to produce uncertainty or confusion; bewilderingly.
- With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension.
- (figuratively) In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly.
- (figuratively) In a manner which retards or prevents discernment; clandestinely.
- without light
- in a dark glowering menacing manner
adj
adj
- of or as conceived by existentialism
- Of or relating to existentialism (“a philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices”).
- derived from experience or the experience of existence
- relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
- Of or relating to existence.
- (linguistics) Relating to part of a clause that indicates existence (for example, there is).
- Concerning the very existence of something, especially with regard to evading extinction.
- Of an assertion, etc.: assuming or suggesting the existence of something.
noun
adj
- of greater seriousness or danger
- greater in scope or effect
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees
- of the elder of two boys with the same family name
- greater in number or size or amount
- of full legal age
- of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes
- of greater importance or stature or rank
- Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism. (of a premise)
- Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees. (of a scale)
- Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
- (postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
- Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- Having a major third above the root.
- Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
- Of full legal age, having attained majority.
- Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. (of an interval)
- (medicine) Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
- (education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
- Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. (of a term)
noun
- a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
- the principal field of study of a student at a university
- a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject
- Ellipsis of major premise.
- Ellipsis of major key.
- (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
- (military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
- (education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- (campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
- (Australian rules football) A goal.
- Ellipsis of major scale.
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
- Ellipsis of major term.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of major suit.
- Ellipsis of major interval.
- (entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
- A person of legal age.
verb
adj
- involving risk or danger
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without a basis in reason or fact
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
adv
verb
adj
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
- showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire
- (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
- desperately determined
- arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
- showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort
- Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
- Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
- In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
- Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.
- Intense; extremely intense.
- Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.
noun
adv
adj
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
- causing fear or dread or terror
- (fantasy, gaming) Ferocious and of intimidating appearance, like a dire wolf.
- Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
- (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
- Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.