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noun
- The act of distinguishing between things.
- The ability to distinguish between things.
- The ability to distinguish; judgement.
- The condition of understanding.
- Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
- The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
- Perceptiveness.
- Discretion in judging objectively.
- The ability to perceive differences that exist.
verb
- To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
- To recognize a distinction or difference between two things.
- To (cause to) go through a process of development called differentiation; to make or become different in form or function.
- To make different; to change, modify.
- To calculate the derivative of a function.
- To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
- To teach a lesson in multiple different ways in order to meet the needs of more or less advanced students.
noun
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
adj
- Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
- Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
- Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
- Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
- Characteristic, typical.
- Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
noun
noun
- the act of noticing or paying attention
- an announcement containing information about an event
- a request for payment
- advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- polite or favorable attention
- a short critical review
verb
noun
- the act of distinguishing by comparing differences
- the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors
- the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)
verb
verb
- To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
- To order; to direct, to say to someone.
- To instruct or inform.
- To narrate.
- To reveal.
- To convey by speech; to say.
- To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show
- To count, reckon, or enumerate.
- To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
- To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
- To be revealed.
- To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
noun
- A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
- A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
- A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
noun
- the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
- the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
- (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings
- care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
noun
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- an opinion formed by judging something
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
noun
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
verb
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
- To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
noun
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- The model number of a device; a device model.
- A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game.
- One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- Attention.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- A characteristic feature.
- A written character or sign.
- A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
noun
- The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
- An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
- A collection, a gathering.
- The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
- Presentation to a benefice.
- A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
- Any light meal or snack.
- The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
- The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
- The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
- The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
- The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
noun
- The act of distinguishing, discriminating; discrimination.
- That which distinguishes; a single occurrence of a determining factor or feature, the fact of being divided; separation, discrimination.
- Specifically, a feature that causes someone or something to stand out as being better; a mark of honour, rank, eminence or excellence; being distinguished.
verb
- See distinctly (with the eyes or the mind); distinguish (an object or fact); discern.
- transferred sense
- Decree a person etc. to be or to do something by judicial sentence. (in the phrase “to decern in”, obsolete) To mulct in by decree of court.
- Decree by judicial sentence that something be done.
- intransitive
- with simple object
noun
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- An official determination of placement.
- A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- Penalty spot.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- An autosoliton.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A parking space.
- One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- A difficult situation.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A decimal point; point.
- A location or area.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
verb
- To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- To place an object at a location indicated by a spot.
- To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
adj
noun
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.
- A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
- An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
noun
- the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
- someone who takes the place of another person
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- filling again by supplying what has been used up
- a person who follows next in order
noun
- The act of discerning detail.
- The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
- A strong will, determination.
- The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
- A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
- The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
- The degree of fineness of such a separation.
- The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup.
- The state of being resolute.
- The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
- A statement of intent, a vow
- Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
- In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
- The act or process of solving; solution.
noun
- The act of identifying (i.e., which one, which thing).
- A particular instance of identifying something.
- The combination of identifying (which one, which thing) and validating the identity (proving or confirming it); identifying and authenticating viewed as a unitary concept in cognition.
- A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding, or belonging towards somebody or something.
- A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.
- The state of being identified.
verb
- To discern; to manage to see, hear etc.
- To manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.).
- To draw up (a document etc.), to designate (a cheque) to a given recipient, payee.
- To represent; to make (something) appear to be true.
- To embrace and kiss passionately.
- To engage in heavy petting or sexual intercourse.
adj
noun
- The act of persons or things that meet.
- A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
- The people at such a gathering.
- A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
- An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
- An encounter between people, even accidental.
noun
- An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
- Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
- A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
verb
- To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- To be immediately apparent.
- To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
- To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- To reflect light.
- To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
- To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
noun
noun
- The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
- The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
- The process of applying the derivative operator to a function; of calculating a function's derivative.
- The evolutionary process by which one taxonomic group (species, genus, variety, etc.) becomes distinct from another, or acquires distinct features; the result of such a process: distinctness.
- The process of developing distinct components.
- The process by which the components of multicellular life (cells, organs, etc.) are produced and acquire function, as when a seed develops the root and stem, and the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds.
adj
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- ending in a sharp point
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- harsh
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- dangerously steep
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
- quick and forceful
noun
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
adj
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
adv
noun
- The act of associating.
- The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
- Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
- A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business.
- A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
- Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
noun
- The act of penetrating a given situation with the mind or faculties; perception, discernment.
- Specifically, the insertion of the penis (or similar object) during sexual intercourse.
- The act of penetrating something.
- A number or fraction that represents how many cards/decks will be dealt before shuffling, in contrast to the total number of cards/decks in play.
- The proportion of the target audience who buy the advertised product or service.
noun
noun
- The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
- Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
- An agreement legalizing such an arrangement.
- An object that separates two spaces.
- The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
- The place at which a division occurs.
- An interval, gap or space that separates things or people.
- The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
noun
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