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noun
- A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- A list or league
- A mass formed in layers.
- A large amount of money.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A hemorrhoid.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
verb
- To add something to a great number.
- (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
noun
- A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
- The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
- The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
- The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- the original software programming settings as set by the factory
- A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
- A loss incurred by failing to compete.
verb
verb
- To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
- To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
- To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
- To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
- To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
- To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
- To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
- To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
- Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.
- To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
- To play at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- To eject; to kick out of a place.
noun
- A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.
- A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.
- Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs. E.g anyone up for a punt on Randwick?
- A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
- A wild guess.
- A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
- A bet or wager.
- The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
- A point in the game of faro.
- The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
verb
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- carry out
- require (time or space)
- take somebody somewhere
- get into one's hands, take physically
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- take into one's possession
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- receive willingly something given or offered
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- require as useful, just, or proper
- experience or feel or submit to
- make a film or photograph of something
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- conquer by force
- occupy or take on
- admit into a group or community
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- be a student of a certain subject
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- head into a specified direction
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- engage for service under a term of contract
- receive or obtain regularly
- buy, select
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- have sex with; archaic use
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- be designed to hold or take
- be capable of holding or containing
- develop a habit
- proceed along in a vehicle
- obtain by winning
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
noun
noun
- A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
adj
verb
noun
- Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.
- A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
- A ridge or low barrier.
- A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
- A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
- A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
- The texture of a piece of fabric.
- A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
- A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy.
verb
noun
- A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
- An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.
- The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
- A variable that describes some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
- The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
- An actual value given to such a formal parameter.
- A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm.
- A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
- Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
- In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
noun
- A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
- A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.
- A distinctive accent.
adj
- Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
- Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
- Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
- Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
- Characteristic, typical.
- Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
verb
- To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
- To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
- To make normal, to make standard.
- To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
- To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
- To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
- To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
- To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
adj
- having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
- morally admirable
adv
- (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well')
- completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly')
adj
- having the normally expected amount
- deserving of esteem and respect
- promoting or enhancing well-being
- agreeable or pleasing
- of moral excellence
- having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
- thorough
- with or in a close or intimate relationship
- financially safe
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- resulting favorably
- exerting force or influence
- capable of pleasing
- appealing to the mind
- in excellent physical condition
- tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
- not forged
- not left to spoil
- generally admired
noun
verb
- To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- To defeat utterly.
- To move from low tide to high tide.
- To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
- To kill, especially to murder a person.
- To grow.
- To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
adj
noun
- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- Beeswax.
- The process of growing.
- Earwax.
- A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
- The phonograph record format for music.
noun
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- an instant of time
- the object of an activity
- a V shape
- a very small circular shape
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- an outstanding characteristic
- sharp end
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a wall socket
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
verb
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- be oriented
- direct into a position for use
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- sail close to the wind
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- be positionable in a specified manner
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- give a point to
- repair the joints of bricks
noun
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- The children's game of tag.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- Form; standard of performance.
verb
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To concern, to have to do with.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To consume, or otherwise use.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- To come close to; to approach.
noun
- A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.
- Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
- A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
- A being involved in the action of a story.
- A person or individual, especially one who is unknown.
- Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
- One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
- A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.
- A written or printed symbol, or letter.
- A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
noun
- a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
- a prominent attribute or aspect of something
- the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2
- any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
adj
noun
- Selection, array.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- The defensive area that a player can cover.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
verb
- To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- To classify.
- Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- To form a line or a row.
- To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- To rove over or through.
- To determine the range to a target.
- To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
- To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
noun
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- The details; particulars.
- A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
- Specification
adj
- of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
- similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- Hyponyms: monospecific, multispecific, oligospecific, paucispecific
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
- pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- special, distinctive or unique.
- being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
- explicit or definite.
noun
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- a perceptual structure
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- a printed document with spaces in which to write
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
- a particular mode in which something is manifested
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
- a body of students who are taught together
- an ability to perform well
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- a mold for setting concrete
verb
noun
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- noticeable heterogeneity
- (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics
- a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances
- a difference that is usually pleasant
adj
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- Not negative or neutral.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Optimistic.
- Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Of number, greater than zero.
- Having more protons than electrons.
- HIV positive.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Formally laid down.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- electropositive
- Fully assured in opinion.
- Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
noun
- A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- A positive result of a test.
- An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
noun
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- an abstract painting
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
verb
- To select someone (or something) for a particular role or purpose.
- To draw out; to call forth.
- To write a law.
- To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
- To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
- To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
- To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
- To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
- To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
- To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
adj
- Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.
- Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.
noun
- Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
- The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
- The draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
- The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
- An act of drinking.
- A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
- A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
- A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
- The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
- An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.
- The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
- Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
- A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
- A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
- A cheque, an order for money to be paid.
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