English words for 'Initialism of variable cycle engine.'
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noun
- Initialism of horsepower.
- Initialism of Houses of Parliament.
- Initialism of hire purchase.
- Initialism of Helicobacter pylori.
- Initialism of hydrogen peroxide.
- (Japan) Initialism of home page.
- (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea) Initialism of handphone.
- (video games, mostly role-playing games) Initialism of hit points / health points.
- Initialism of higher power.
- Initialism of horizontal pitch.
- a unit of power equal to 746 watts
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- Initialism of engine control module.
- (military) Initialism of Electronic countermeasure.
- (materials science) Abbreviation of engineered cellular magmatic.
- (astronomy) Abbreviation of extra-cluster medium.
- (medicine) Initialism of extracellular matrix.
- (grammar) Initialism of exceptional case-marking.
- (mathematics) Initialism of elliptic curve method.
- (computing) Initialism of enterprise content management.
- electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum
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- (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
- (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
- (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
- (in combination) A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
- (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
- (countable, baseball) First base.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- an honours degree of the highest class
- the first or highest in an ordering or series
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- the first element in a countable series
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
adj
- Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
- Of or belonging to a first family.
- Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
- Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
- preceding all others in time or space or degree
- serving to set in motion
- highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
- serving to begin
- ranking above all others
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verb
noun
- Initialism of motor vehicle.
- (statistics) Initialism of measured variable.
- Initialism of music video.
- (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of mitral valve.
- (nautical) Initialism of motor vessel.
- (nautical) Initialism of merchant vessel.
- (agriculture) Initialism of modern variety.
- (medicine) Initialism of mechanical ventilation.
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- The act by which an engine is revved.
- (Internet, uncountable) A technique for reducing web page loading times by assigning far-future expiration dates to the resources on the page (so that the browser caches them indefinitely) and, if changes are needed, using different filenames for those resources.
verb
noun
- The second gear of an engine.
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
- (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
- A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- (baseball) Second base.
- (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- (informal) A second-class honours degree.
- following the first in an ordering or series
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- a particular point in time
- an indefinitely short time
- a speech seconding a motion
adj
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
- coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude
- a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first
adv
verb
- (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
- (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
- (transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
- give support or one's approval to
- transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment
noun
- the rotating armature of a motor or generator
- rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils
- the revolving bar of a distributor
- (cellular automata) The set of cells within an oscillator that switch between being alive and dead over the course of the oscillator's period.
- (mathematics, algebra) A quantity having magnitude, direction, and position.
- (meteorology) A type of powerful horizontal-axis atmospheric vortex generated by the interaction of strong winds with mountainous terrain.
- (automotive, cycling) In a disc brake, the metal disc attached to the wheel hub.
- An amusement park and carnival ride consisting of a rotating cylindrical chamber in which centrifugal force adheres riders to the wall as the floor drops away, creating a sensation of defying gravity.
- A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric motor, generator, alternator, or pump.
- (aviation) The wing of a helicopter or other rotary-wing aircraft.
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- An engine that operates on the four-stroke principle.
- an internal-combustion engine in which an explosive mixture is drawn into the cylinder on the first stroke and is compressed and ignited on the second stroke; work is done on the third stroke and the products of combustion are exhausted on the fourth stroke
verb
- (automotive, cycling) To shift a transmission into a lower gear.
- To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)
- (automotive, cycling) To shift (a car or bicycle) into a lower gear.
- To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- To function at a lower rate; to slacken.
noun
- A change of direction or a movement downwards.
- A reduction in quality or quantity.
- (automotive, cycling) A shift of a transmission into a lower gear, as dictated by heavier load on the engine, as for example when climbing a hill or strongly accelerating.
- A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle
- a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one
noun
- (automotive) The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
- (astronomy) The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.
- An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
- (music) The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
- (computing) The process by which data is compressed.
- the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
- encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
- an increase in the density of something
- applying pressure
noun
- (automotive) Initialism of brake-by-wire.
- (sexuality) Initialism of big beautiful woman, used as a positive description for women who are (sometimes slightly) overweight and physically attractive.
- Initialism of big-boned woman, recoinage of the acronym, making fun of the typical term for overweight women.
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- (automotive) Initialism of automatic transmission fluid.
- (aviation) Initialism of aviation turbine fuel: jet fuel.
- (US, military, nautical) Initialism of auxiliary tugboat fleet; a naval fleet tugboat, a fleet tug that can keep up with a fleet on operations
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of advanced tactical fighter.
- the law enforcement and tax collection agency of the Treasury Department that enforces federal laws concerning alcohol and tobacco products and firearms and explosives and arson
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- Initialism of code of ethics.
- (Australia) Initialism of confirmation of enrolment.
- (Singapore) Initialism of Certificate of Entitlement
- Initialism of college of engineering.
- Initialism of college of education.
- Initialism of center of excellence.
- Initialism of close of escrow.
- (automotive) Initialism of cab over engine.
noun
- (automotive) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.
- The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
- (psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
- (US, slang) Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.
- A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.
- (aerospace) The shutoff of a rocket motor after exhausting its fuel or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
verb
- (transitive) To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.
- (intransitive) To feed on carrion or refuse.
- (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
- (transitive) To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
- feed on carrion or refuse
- clean refuse from
- remove unwanted substances from
- collect discarded material
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- (transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- (transitive) To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To transfer.
- (transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
- (transitive) To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
- (transitive) To mull, ponder
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
- (transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back.
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- do business worth a certain amount of money
- move by turning over or rotating
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- think about carefully; weigh
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- place into the hands or custody of
noun
- regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine
- (mechanical engineering) A rotating mass used to maintain the speed of a machine within certain limits while the machine receives or releases energy at a varying rate, or as a form of energy storage.
noun
- (informal) An engine.
- One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
- (historical) A prison treadmill.
- (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- One thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
- A milling cutter used on such a machine.
- (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
- (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
- (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
- (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.
- (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”).
- (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
verb
- (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
- (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
- (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
- (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
- produce a ridge around the edge of
- move about in a confused manner
- grind with a mill
noun
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- (linguistics) Initialism of Middle English.
- Initialism of Montreal Exchange, a futures and derivatives exchange (formerly also a stock exchange).
- Abbreviation of Middle East: a geographic region of West Asia, additionally including Turkey, as well as Egypt in North Africa.
- Abbreviation of Maine: a state of the United States.
- (computing) Alternative letter-case form of Me (“Windows Me (Millennium Edition)”).
- (fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect.
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- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
verb
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
noun
- (automotive) Initialism of displacement-on-demand (a type of engine that can shut down cylinders when not needed).
- (printing) Initialism of drop-on-demand.
- (scrum, software) Initialism of definition of done.
- Abbreviation of degree of difficulty
- Initialism of date of death.
- (military) Initialism of department of defence.
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- (transitive) To make adjustments (to an engine or bicycle drivetrain) in order to improve its performance.
- (chiefly US, transitive, idiomatic) To beat up (someone).
- (intransitive, music) To tune one's instrument in preparation for performance.
- (intransitive) To make preparations for vigorous exercise; to warm up.
- (intransitive) To begin to sing or play music.
- adjust the pitches of (musical instruments)
- adjust for (better) functioning
noun
- (automotive engineering) Initialism of engine management unit.
- (astronautics) Initialism of extravehicular mobility unit (“spacesuit”).
- (cgs) Alternative form of emu or e.m.u.; Initialism of electromagnetic unit.
- (rail transport, countable) Initialism of electric multiple unit.
- (economics) Initialism of economic and monetary union.
- (computing) Initialism of English metric unit (“1/360,000-th of a centimetre, or, 1/914400-th of an inch”).
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- An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
- A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
- A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
- an energetic person with unusual initiative
- an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine
noun
- Initialism of horsepower.
- Initialism of Houses of Parliament.
- Initialism of hire purchase.
- Initialism of Helicobacter pylori.
- Initialism of hydrogen peroxide.
- (Japan) Initialism of home page.
- (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea) Initialism of handphone.
- (video games, mostly role-playing games) Initialism of hit points / health points.
- Initialism of higher power.
- Initialism of horizontal pitch.
- a unit of power equal to 746 watts
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- Initialism of engine control module.
- (military) Initialism of Electronic countermeasure.
- (materials science) Abbreviation of engineered cellular magmatic.
- (astronomy) Abbreviation of extra-cluster medium.
- (medicine) Initialism of extracellular matrix.
- (grammar) Initialism of exceptional case-marking.
- (mathematics) Initialism of elliptic curve method.
- (computing) Initialism of enterprise content management.
- electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum
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- (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
- (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
- (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
- (in combination) A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
- (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
- (countable, baseball) First base.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- an honours degree of the highest class
- the first or highest in an ordering or series
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- the first element in a countable series
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
adj
- Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
- Of or belonging to a first family.
- Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
- Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
- preceding all others in time or space or degree
- serving to set in motion
- highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
- serving to begin
- ranking above all others
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noun
- Initialism of motor vehicle.
- (statistics) Initialism of measured variable.
- Initialism of music video.
- (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of mitral valve.
- (nautical) Initialism of motor vessel.
- (nautical) Initialism of merchant vessel.
- (agriculture) Initialism of modern variety.
- (medicine) Initialism of mechanical ventilation.
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- The act by which an engine is revved.
- (Internet, uncountable) A technique for reducing web page loading times by assigning far-future expiration dates to the resources on the page (so that the browser caches them indefinitely) and, if changes are needed, using different filenames for those resources.
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- The second gear of an engine.
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
- (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
- A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- (baseball) Second base.
- (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- (informal) A second-class honours degree.
- following the first in an ordering or series
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- a particular point in time
- an indefinitely short time
- a speech seconding a motion
adj
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
- coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude
- a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first
adv
verb
- (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
- (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
- (transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
- give support or one's approval to
- transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment
noun
- the rotating armature of a motor or generator
- rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils
- the revolving bar of a distributor
- (cellular automata) The set of cells within an oscillator that switch between being alive and dead over the course of the oscillator's period.
- (mathematics, algebra) A quantity having magnitude, direction, and position.
- (meteorology) A type of powerful horizontal-axis atmospheric vortex generated by the interaction of strong winds with mountainous terrain.
- (automotive, cycling) In a disc brake, the metal disc attached to the wheel hub.
- An amusement park and carnival ride consisting of a rotating cylindrical chamber in which centrifugal force adheres riders to the wall as the floor drops away, creating a sensation of defying gravity.
- A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric motor, generator, alternator, or pump.
- (aviation) The wing of a helicopter or other rotary-wing aircraft.
noun
- An engine that operates on the four-stroke principle.
- an internal-combustion engine in which an explosive mixture is drawn into the cylinder on the first stroke and is compressed and ignited on the second stroke; work is done on the third stroke and the products of combustion are exhausted on the fourth stroke
noun
- (automotive) The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
- (astronomy) The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.
- An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
- (music) The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
- (computing) The process by which data is compressed.
- the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
- encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
- an increase in the density of something
- applying pressure
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- (automotive) Initialism of brake-by-wire.
- (sexuality) Initialism of big beautiful woman, used as a positive description for women who are (sometimes slightly) overweight and physically attractive.
- Initialism of big-boned woman, recoinage of the acronym, making fun of the typical term for overweight women.
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- (automotive) Initialism of automatic transmission fluid.
- (aviation) Initialism of aviation turbine fuel: jet fuel.
- (US, military, nautical) Initialism of auxiliary tugboat fleet; a naval fleet tugboat, a fleet tug that can keep up with a fleet on operations
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of advanced tactical fighter.
- the law enforcement and tax collection agency of the Treasury Department that enforces federal laws concerning alcohol and tobacco products and firearms and explosives and arson
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- (automotive) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.
- The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
- (psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
- (US, slang) Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.
- A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.
- (aerospace) The shutoff of a rocket motor after exhausting its fuel or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
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- regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine
- (mechanical engineering) A rotating mass used to maintain the speed of a machine within certain limits while the machine receives or releases energy at a varying rate, or as a form of energy storage.
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- (informal) An engine.
- One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
- (historical) A prison treadmill.
- (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- One thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
- A milling cutter used on such a machine.
- (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
- (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
- (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
- (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.
- (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”).
- (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
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- (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
- (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
- (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
- (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
- produce a ridge around the edge of
- move about in a confused manner
- grind with a mill
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- (linguistics) Initialism of Middle English.
- Initialism of Montreal Exchange, a futures and derivatives exchange (formerly also a stock exchange).
- Abbreviation of Middle East: a geographic region of West Asia, additionally including Turkey, as well as Egypt in North Africa.
- Abbreviation of Maine: a state of the United States.
- (computing) Alternative letter-case form of Me (“Windows Me (Millennium Edition)”).
- (fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect.
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- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
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- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
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- (automotive) Initialism of displacement-on-demand (a type of engine that can shut down cylinders when not needed).
- (printing) Initialism of drop-on-demand.
- (scrum, software) Initialism of definition of done.
- Abbreviation of degree of difficulty
- Initialism of date of death.
- (military) Initialism of department of defence.
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- (automotive engineering) Initialism of engine management unit.
- (astronautics) Initialism of extravehicular mobility unit (“spacesuit”).
- (cgs) Alternative form of emu or e.m.u.; Initialism of electromagnetic unit.
- (rail transport, countable) Initialism of electric multiple unit.
- (economics) Initialism of economic and monetary union.
- (computing) Initialism of English metric unit (“1/360,000-th of a centimetre, or, 1/914400-th of an inch”).
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- An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
- A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
- A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
- an energetic person with unusual initiative
- an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine
verb
- (automotive, cycling) To shift a transmission into a lower gear.
- To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)
- (automotive, cycling) To shift (a car or bicycle) into a lower gear.
- To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- To function at a lower rate; to slacken.
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- A change of direction or a movement downwards.
- A reduction in quality or quantity.
- (automotive, cycling) A shift of a transmission into a lower gear, as dictated by heavier load on the engine, as for example when climbing a hill or strongly accelerating.
- A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle
- a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one
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- (transitive) To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.
- (intransitive) To feed on carrion or refuse.
- (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
- (transitive) To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
- feed on carrion or refuse
- clean refuse from
- remove unwanted substances from
- collect discarded material
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- (transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- (transitive) To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To transfer.
- (transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
- (transitive) To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
- (transitive) To mull, ponder
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
- (transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back.
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- do business worth a certain amount of money
- move by turning over or rotating
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- think about carefully; weigh
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- place into the hands or custody of
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- (transitive) To make adjustments (to an engine or bicycle drivetrain) in order to improve its performance.
- (chiefly US, transitive, idiomatic) To beat up (someone).
- (intransitive, music) To tune one's instrument in preparation for performance.
- (intransitive) To make preparations for vigorous exercise; to warm up.
- (intransitive) To begin to sing or play music.
- adjust the pitches of (musical instruments)
- adjust for (better) functioning
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- Initialism of code of ethics.
- (Australia) Initialism of confirmation of enrolment.
- (Singapore) Initialism of Certificate of Entitlement
- Initialism of college of engineering.
- Initialism of college of education.
- Initialism of center of excellence.
- Initialism of close of escrow.
- (automotive) Initialism of cab over engine.