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verb
noun
- What something does or is used for.
- The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
- A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
- The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
- An official or social occasion.
- A party.
- The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
- A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
- A professional or official position.
- A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
- Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
noun
noun
- A function.
- An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
- A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
- Synonym of associative array.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
- A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
verb
- To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.
- To have a direct relationship; to correspond.
- To represent by means of a map.
- To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.
- To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
- To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
noun
- A function word.
- A function object.
- A structure allowing a function to apply within a generic type, in a way that is conceptually similar to a functor in category theory.
- A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows, in such a way as to preserve domains and codomains (of the arrows) as well as composition and identities.
adj
- of a program or function that calls itself
- whose characteristic function is recursive (4)
- of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
- drawing upon itself, referring back.
- which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
noun
- A function of a function.
- A mixture of different components.
- A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
- A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images.
- A railway carriage with compartments for two different classes of travel; see Composite Corridor.
- A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae.
adj
- Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.
- Belonging to the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.
- Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.
- Having factors other than itself and one; not prime and not one.
- Employing multiple exposures on a single plate, so as to create an average view of something, such as faces in physiognomy.
verb
noun
- The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- An answer.
- A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- A return ticket.
- An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- A carriage return character.
- The act of returning.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
verb
- To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- To recur; to come again.
- To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- To come or go back (to a place or person).
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- To report, or bring back and make known.
- To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- To place or put back something where it had been.
- To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- To say in reply; to respond.
- To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
noun
- The act of beta reducing, an instance of replacing a function call by the result of calling a function.
- One of the three rewrite rules of the lambda calculus, which states that the application of a lambda abstraction (𝜆x.t) to a term s yields an expression t[s/x], "t with s instead of x", where all free instances of x in t have been replaced by s.
noun
- An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).
- A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function whose argument varies in a space of (real or complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example is the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.
- A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
adj
- Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
- Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture
- Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function
- Of a disease, such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.
- In good working order.
verb
- To receive calls; to function correctly.
- To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
- To collect and detain (a suspect).
- To lift; to grasp and raise.
- To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- To record; to notch up.
- To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- To collect an object, especially in passing.
- To answer a telephone.
- To take control (physically) of something.
- To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- To restart or resume.
- To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
- To improve, increase, or speed up.
- To reduce the despondency of.
- To pay for.
- To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To collect a passenger.
noun
- A function that takes state and action as arguments and returns the next state of the app.
- A reducing agent.
- A liquid used in the process of developing a negative to reduce its darkness.
- A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machine.
- A component used to connect two pipes of different bores.
- Something that reduces.
noun
- A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
- The act of using.
- Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
- Usefulness, benefit.
- A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.
- A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
- The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
verb
- To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
- To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
- To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
- To expend; to consume by employing.
- To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
- To employ; to apply; to utilize.
- To exploit.
- To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
- To suggest or request that other people employ a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
noun
- The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear.
- The action or process of defining.
- The act of defining; determination of the limits.
- A statement expressing the essential nature of something; formulation
- A clear instance conforming to the dictionary or textbook definition.
- A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function).
- A statement that establishes the referent of a term or notation.
- Sharp demarcation of outlines or limits.
- A statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or symbol (dictionary definitions).
- Clarity of visual presentation, distinctness of outline or detail.
- A product of defining.
- Clarity, especially of musical sound in reproduction.
- The degree to which individual muscles are distinct on the body.
noun
- The act or process of declaring.
- In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
- The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.
- The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
- A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, intention, belief, etc.
- A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
noun
adj
noun
- A function that calls another (the callee).
- The person who makes a telephone call.
- A visitor.
- The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
- The person who directs dancers in certain dances, such as American line dances and square dances.
- A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
verb
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- 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.
- 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 turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- 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
noun
- The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
- That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
- The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.
- The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. linguistic performance.
- A live show or concert.
noun
- the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
- a special group delegated to consider some matter
- a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary)
- the state of being in good working order and ready for operation
- a group of representatives or delegates
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
- the act of committing a crime
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
verb
verb
- To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
- To forcibly direct (something).
- To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
- To drive away by setting a fire.
- To animate; to give life or spirit to.
- To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
- To set (something, often a building) on fire.
- To set off an explosive in a mine.
- To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
- To feed or serve the fire of.
- To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
- To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
- To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
- To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
- To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
- To cause an action potential in a cell.
- To cauterize.
noun
- A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
- The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
- Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
- The elements necessary to start a fire.
- Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
- Red coloration in a piece of opal.
- The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
- A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
- Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
- An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
- A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
- A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
- An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
- The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
adj
verb
- To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).
- To shoot; to fire
- To give off a spark or sparks.
- To light; to kindle.
noun
- A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Indomalayan genus Sinthusa.
- An electrician.
- A small amount of something, such as an idea or romantic affection, that has the potential to become something greater, just as a spark can start a fire.
- A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire.
- A ship's radio operator.
- A short or small burst of electrical discharge.
- A gallant; a foppish young man.
- A beau, lover.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
- In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
- A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
- One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
- An occurrence; something that happens.
- An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
- A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
- An episode of severe health conditions.
- A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
noun
- A function pointer passed as an argument to another function.
- A joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine.
- A follow-up audition in casting.
- The return of a situation to a previous position or state.
- A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
- A form of audience participation in which the audience shout lines in response to the dialog of a film.
- A product recall because of a defect or safety concern.
adj
- the complete stoppage of an action
- very tired
- unerringly accurate
- physically inactive
- (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking resilience or bounce
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- no longer having force or relevance
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- devoid of activity
adj
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
noun
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
adv
noun
- A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
- Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
- The independent variable of a function.
- Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
- A process of reasoning; argumentation.
- The phase of a complex number.
- A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
- A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
- A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
noun
- the act of using
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
verb
adj
- A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
- Relating to distribution.
- Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
- Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
- Assigning the species of a general term.
noun
noun
- A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
- The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- A long-haired breed of gundog.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- A typesetter.
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
verb
verb
noun
- An operation (often an integration) that converts one function into another.
- A transform fault.
- A function so produced.
verb
- To undergo a transformation; to change in appearance or character.
- To change greatly the appearance or form of.
- To subject to the action of a transformer.
- To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.
- To subject (a cell) to transformation.
- To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.
noun
- the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty
- the property of being physically or mentally strong
- capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
- physical energy or intensity
- an asset of special worth or utility
- the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)
- capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects
- the condition of financial success
- permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
adj
- (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- Greatly interested.
- Busy or employed.
- attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- being attacked or attacking
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”)
- in contact and in operation
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