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noun
- An assumed role or manner of behavior.
- Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks.
- That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons
- A celebrity, especially one with a strong media presence.
- A set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.
- A set of qualities that make something distinctive or interesting.
- Charisma, or qualities that make a person stand out from the crowd.
noun
- Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
- The act of noting and recording some event; or the record of such noting.
- A remark or comment.
- A realization of a random variable.
- A judgement based on observing.
- A regime under which a subject is routinely observed.
- Philosophically as: the phenomenal presence of human being existence.
- The act of observing, and the fact of being observed (see observance)
adj
noun
- an authoritative command
- a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
- the state of being controlled or governed
- (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered
- the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular
- the act of controlling or directing according to rule
noun
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
- an administrative unit of government
- (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
- professional or clerical workers in an office
- a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
- a job in an organization
noun
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- a portion of a natural object
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- the extended spatial location of something
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- an item that is an instance of some type
adv
verb
noun
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
- what something is used for
- a relation such that one thing is dependent on another
- a formal or official social gathering or ceremony
- a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
verb
noun
- Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
- A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
- A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
- The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
- The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
- Access; admittance.
- A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
- Agreement.
- The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
- Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
verb
verb
- To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
- To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
- To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
noun
- Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
- A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
- A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
- Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
verb
- To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to.
- To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
- To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.
- To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
- To pass without interference; to miss.
- To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).
- To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.
- To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
- To exceed a stated mark.
- To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of.
- To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.
- To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
- To obtain a clearance.
- To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.
- To earn a profit of; to net.
- To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
- To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
- To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
adj
- Free of obstacles.
- Good, the best.
- Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood.
- Without clouds.
- Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
- Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
- Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
- Transparent in colour.
- Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
- Unmixed; entirely pure.
- Without diminution; in full; net.
- Showing a green aspect, allowing a train to proceed past it.
- Better than, superior to.
- Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
- Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
- Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
- Without a thickening ingredient.
- Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
- Free of guilt, or suspicion.
- Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.
noun
- A person who is free from the influence of engrams.
- The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.
- Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
adv
noun
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made
- a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
- physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
- a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone
- a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
- a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
- a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game
- a major division of a long written composition
- a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge
verb
verb
- To select and take or approve.
- To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
- To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
- To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
- To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
verb
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
noun
- A unit of measurement.
- A piece of legislation.
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- A bed or stratum.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
adj
- Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
- Probable but not proved.
- Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
- Capable of right and wrong action.
- Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
verb
noun
noun
- prescribed guide for conduct or action
- a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
- something regarded as a normative example
- (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice
- a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct
- the duration of a monarch's or government's power
- dominance or power through legal authority
- directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted
- any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order
- a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system
- (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems
- measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths
verb
noun
- The act of circumscribing or the quality of being circumscribed.
- An electoral district; used often in texts treating electoral systems in Romance countries.
- The definition of what does and does not belong to a given taxon, from a particular taxonomic viewpoint or taxonomic system.
- Anything that circumscribes or a circumscribed area.
verb
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To obtain.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- See have to.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To cause to be.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- To trick, to deceive.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To depict as being.
- To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To possess, own.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To give birth to.
noun
verb
noun
- The option to so select, and the one selected.
- The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to the thing or person, but possibly also "of")
- The state of being preferred over others.
- Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.
- A strong liking or personal valuation.
- A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
noun
- The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.
- One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.
- A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.
- A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass.
- A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
- The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.
- A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment.
- A penny farthing bicycle.
- A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.
- An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.
adj
noun
- Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
- Misuse; improper use; perversion.
- Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
- Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
verb
- To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
- To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.
- To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
- To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
verb
- approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
- be engaged by a written agreement
- engage by written agreement
- communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
- place signs, as along a road
- communicate in sign language
- make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
noun
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- a public display of a message
- any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease
- having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
- an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
- a gesture that is part of a sign language
- a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified
- a character indicating a relation between quantities
adj
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