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noun
- One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
- A cafeteria at a movie studio.
- A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
- The judge in a commissary court.
- An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
- A higher-ranking police officer.
- An account which a prisoner uses to buy provisions, or the balance of that account.
- An officer who supplies provisions to an army.
noun
- One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to do the business of another
- One who exerts power, or has the power to act
- An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect
- The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
- Someone who works for an intelligence agency
- A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.
- In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
- A person who looks for work for another person
noun
- An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
- A licence to make alterations to a church.
- A division of a university.
- an ability, power, or skill.
- The members of a profession.
- The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
verb
- To have power, coercion or control.
- To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
- To defeat or surpass someone or something.
- To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
- To achieve victory.
- To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
- To obtain (something desired).
- To cause a victory for someone.
- To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
- To dry by exposure to the wind.
- To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
noun
noun
- A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
- The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
- The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success.
- The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual.
- The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
verb
- To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
- To surround, accompany, or attend.
- To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
- To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
- To ceremonially install someone in some office.
- To lay siege to.
- To be involved in; to form strong attachments to.
- To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
- To make investments.
- To envelop, wrap, cover.
- To formally give (power or authority).
noun
noun
- That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
- The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
- Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
- Trustworthiness, reliability.
- Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
- Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
verb
- To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
- To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
- To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
- to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
- To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
- To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
- To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
- To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
adj
noun
- The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; a delegation.
- The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
- Among Christian missionaries, the process or period of time during which they raise support in preparation for going to their mission field.
adj
- Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.
- Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.
- Being the current holder of an office or a title.
- Resting on something else; in botany, said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them
- Prevalent, prevailing, predominant.
- Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else.
noun
adj
- Having the duty of taking care of something; answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
- Capable of rational conduct and thus morally accountable for one's behavior.
- Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
- Answerable to (a superior).
- Involving important duties; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
- Having good judgment in decision-making.
- Being a primary cause of a situation or action and thus able to be blamed or credited for it.
- In honor shame culture and patronage, the patron of the entity denoted by the prepositional phrase's compliment AKA object, the entity being its client. In this context the patron is usually being described analogously to a rump state that would govern the client, functioning as though it were a complaints department and a disciplinary apparatus by getting involved in any disputes involving the client, e.g. by acid attacking its own client or by taking revenge against the client's accuser.
noun
verb
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To direct; to counsel; to instruct
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To step off base and move towards the next base.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- Lead climb.
- To produce (with to).
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- To place leads between the lines of.
- To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To have the highest interim score in a game.
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
adj
noun
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- bullets; ammunition.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A lode.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
noun
noun
- a person who is in charge
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- a single domestic animal
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- the top of something
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- an individual person
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a rounded compact mass
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- a difficult juncture
- forward movement
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the subject matter at issue
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- the striking part of a tool
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- oral stimulation of the genitals
verb
noun
- A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
- Wife.
- An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.
- A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.
- A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
- A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
- A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
- A person in charge of a business or company.
- A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
- A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
- A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
- A term of address to a man.
- A head or reservoir of water.
- A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
- The head of a political party in a given region or district.
adj
verb
noun
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- A malfunction.
- A violent occurrence or event.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
noun
- the act of administering or being in charge of something
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- the state of being in operation
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
adj
- (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
- of advancing the ball by running
- executed or initiated by running
adj
noun
- Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
- The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
- The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
- The property of a gene such that it suppresses the expression of its allele.
verb
- To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, etc.; to present oneself as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
- To come before the public.
- To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.
- To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
- To bring into view.
- To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
adj
- Liable to the legal authority of (something).
- Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
- Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
- Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
- Willing to comply; easily led.
noun
- the power or authority to command
- an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- a military unit or region under the control of a single officer
- availability for use
- a position of highest authority
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
verb
noun
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- possession of controlling influence
- (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second)
- possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
- (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
- a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
- physical strength
- a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
- energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor
- a very wealthy or powerful businessman
verb
noun
- A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
- A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
- An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
- A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
- One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
noun
- a person who has general authority over others
- an artist of consummate skill
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- directs the work of others
- presiding officer of a school
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
- someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution
- an authority qualified to teach apprentices
- key that secures entrance everywhere
adj
verb
noun
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- a powerful effect or influence
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- a unit that is part of some military service
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- (of a law) having legal validity
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
verb
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- move with force
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- do forcibly; exert force
- take by force
noun
- A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority
- One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager
- One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network
verb
- To teach someone to obey authority.
- To impose order on someone.
- To train someone by instruction and practice.
- To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
noun
- A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
- A specific branch of knowledge or learning.
- An enforced compliance or control.
- A whip used for self-flagellation.
- A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
- A controlled behaviour; self-control.
- A set of rules regulating behaviour.
- A punishment to train or maintain control.
- A state of order based on submission to authority.
- A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
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