posing
cut a dash
perform
popularisation
popularization
exhibitionism
vulgarisation
serve
vulgarization
cut a feather
do
desport
cosplay
act
put oneself about
pageant
come
drag king
drag queen
impression
impersonation
model
style
representative
attitude
pose
externalisation
exteriorisation
depictional
decoration
imitationism
exteriorization
externalization
wearing
concretize
imitator
wear
formulation
posture
impersonator
expression
personating
dispersonification
poon up
have
depersonalise
present
depersonalize
represent
portrayal
personative
objectify
personation
fanfare
strut one's stuff
feature
projecting
personate
look through
tangibly
retouch
sham
attitudinize
disguisement
self-promote
show out
interpret
face
depictively
look
touch up
feel like
impersonate
flash
marbling
mimic
favor
illusionistic
autotopography
lord it over
personification
dizen
grandstand
brandishment
project
make believe
attention-seeking
pass oneself off as
dress up
pretend
incognito
flatter
make
representative
depictional
personative
projecting
mimic
illusionistic
attention-seeking
tangibly
depictively
posing
popularisation
popularization
exhibitionism
vulgarisation
vulgarization
drag king
drag queen
impression
impersonation
attitude
externalisation
exteriorisation
decoration
imitationism
exteriorization
externalization
wearing
imitator
wear
formulation
impersonator
expression
personating
dispersonification
portrayal
personation
cosplay
disguisement
face
marbling
autotopography
personification
brandishment
incognito
cut a dash
perform
serve
cut a feather
do
desport
cosplay
act
put oneself about
pageant
come
model
style
pose
concretize
posture
poon up
have
depersonalise
present
depersonalize
represent
objectify
fanfare
strut one's stuff
feature
personate
look through
retouch
sham
attitudinize
self-promote
show out
interpret
look
touch up
feel like
impersonate
flash
favor
lord it over
dizen
grandstand
project
make believe
pass oneself off as
dress up
pretend
flatter
make
wear
verb
- To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
- To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.
- To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
- To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
- To do (something); to execute.
- To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
- To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).
- To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.
verb
- To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
- To present an attractive personal appearance.
- To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
- To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service.
- To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
- To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
- To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
- To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
- To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
- To perform (a public obligation).
- To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
- To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
- To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
- To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
- To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
- To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
- To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
- To be in military service.
- To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
- To work, to operate (a weapon).
- To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
noun
verb
- To impersonate or depict.
- To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- To suffice.
- To finish.
- To fare, perform (well or poorly).
- To have (as an effect).
- To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
- A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- To take drugs.
- To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- To be reasonable or acceptable.
- To have sex with. (See also do it)
- To have as one's job.
- To cook.
- To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- To punish for a misdemeanor.
- To make or provide.
- A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
- To treat in a certain way.
- To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- Let’s do New York also.
- To kill.
- To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
- To injure (one's own body part).
- To perform; to execute.
- To cheat or swindle.
noun
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
- A homicide.
- A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.
- Something that can or should be done.
num
verb
- To convey an appearance of being.
- Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- To perform a theatrical role.
- To play (a role).
- To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
- To feign.
- To do something.
- To have an effect (on).
- To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
noun
- A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A display of behaviour.
- A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- A division of a theatrical performance.
- Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- Any organized activity.
- A performer or performers in a show.
- A formal or official record of something done.
- The process of doing something.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- Something done, a deed.
verb
- To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
- To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
- To carry through; to succeed in.
- To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
- To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- To become butter by being churned.
- Happen.
- To have a certain social background.
- To move from further away to nearer to.
- To move towards the listener.
- To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- To appear, to manifest itself.
- To be or have been a resident or native.
- To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
- To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To move towards an unstated agent.
- To move towards the speaker.
- To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
- To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
- To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- To germinate.
- To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- To arrive.
- To have been brought up by or employed by.
noun
intj
- An exclamation to express annoyance.
- An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
prep
noun
- an impressionistic portrayal of a person
- a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
- an outward appearance
- a clear and telling mental image
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving
- all the copies of a work printed at one time
- (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster
- the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another
verb
- to display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model
- to use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model
- to create from a substance such as clay
- to be a model of any kind
- to make a model or models
- to make a miniature model of
adj
noun
- A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
- A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.
- A style, type, or design.
- Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
- A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing.
- An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
- The structural design of a complex system.
- An animal that is used to study a human disease or pathology.
- A person, usually an attractive male or female that is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.
- A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event.
- An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
- In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.
verb
- To act in a way which seeks to show that one possesses style.
- To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy.
- To call or give a name or title to.
- To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style)
noun
- The gnomon or pin of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
- A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.
- A legal or traditional term or formula of words used to address or refer to a person, especially a monarch or a person holding a post or having a title.
- A tool with a sharp point used in engraving; a burin, a graver, a stylet, a stylus.
- The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
- A particular manner of acting or behaving; (specifically) one regarded as fashionable or skilful; flair, grace.
- A particular way in which one grooms, adorns, dresses, or carries oneself; (specifically) a way thought to be attractive or fashionable.
- A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as boldface or italics.
- A sharp stick used for writing on clay tablets or other surfaces; a stylus; (by extension, obsolete) an instrument used to write with ink; a pen.
- A kind of surgical instrument with a blunt point, used for exploration.
- A small, thin, pointed body part.
- A long, slender, bristle-like process near the anal region.
- A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.
- A set of rules regarding the presentation of text (spelling, typography, the citation of references, etc.) and illustrations that is applied by a publisher to the works it produces.
adj
- Representing, showing a likeness.
- Typical; having the same properties or interest as a larger group.
noun
- Someone who represents others as a member of a legislative or governing body.
- One who speaks for or acts on behalf of another in a particular (especially official) capacity.
- An heir.
- A member of a particular class.
- Something representing or standing for another; a symbol, an embodiment.
- A substitute or analogue.
- A company agent who visits potential purchasers; a salesman.
- Something (especially a living organism) regarded as typical of its class; a type.
- Specifically, a member of the United States House of Representatives.
verb
- To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration.
- To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
- To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.
- To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.
- To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
- To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
noun
noun
- the style of expressing yourself
- the feelings expressed on a person's face
- expression without words
- the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions
- a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
- a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
- (genetics) the process of expressing a gene
- a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
- the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing
verb
- To depict as being.
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To obtain.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- See have to.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To cause to be.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- To trick, to deceive.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To possess, own.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To give birth to.
noun
verb
- To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
- To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
- To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
- To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
- To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
- To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
- To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
- To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
- To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
- In omegaverse fiction, to have one's secondary sex (alpha, omega, or beta) become apparent, typically at puberty.
- To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
- To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.
- To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
- To put on, stage (a play etc.).
- To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
- To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth.
- To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
- To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
- To display one's female genitalia in a way that signals to others that one is ready for copulation. Also referred to as lordosis behaviour.
noun
- The current moment or period of time.
- A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions.
- The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
- The present tense.
adj
- Located in the immediate vicinity.
- Attentive; alert; focused.
- Neither for or against (used in voting to express abstention)
- Relating to now, for the time being; current.
- Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this.
verb
- To portray by mimicry or acting; to act the part or character of
- To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something presentative, which was originally apprehended by direct presentation).
- To portray visually; to delineate
- To act as a representative of (a country, state, district etc.)
- To constitute, to make up, to be an example of.
- To participate as a team member
- To present again, for instance for medical attention.
- To constitute a good example or symbol of a group of people; to acquit oneself well.
- To serve as a sign or symbol of
- To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise act on behalf of
- To bring a certain sensation of into the mind; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.
- To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.
- To portray to another using language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of
- To give an account of; to describe.
verb
- To appear, to make an appearance.
- To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
- To star, to contain.
noun
- An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
- A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
- The act of being featured in a piece of music.
- Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
- A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
- Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
- An important or main item.
- The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
- The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
verb
- To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation
- To convey what a user of one language is saying or signing, in real time or shortly after that person has finished communicating, to a user of a different language
- To analyse or execute (a program) by reading the instructions as they are encountered, rather than compiling in advance.
- To decode the meaning of a topic and then act, whether to continue researching the topic, follow through, act in opposition, or further the understanding through sharing an interpretation.
- To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms. applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.
noun
- Public image; outward appearance.
- A person; the self; (reflexively, objectifying) oneself.
- The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
- A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a "good guy", especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned; a baby face.
- The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
- The mouth.
- The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
- One's facial expression.
- A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.
- A familiar or well-known person; a member of a particular scene, such as the music or fashion scene.
- The front surface of a bat.
- The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
- Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
- Any surface, especially a front or outer one.
- The frontal aspect of something.
- The numbered dial of a clock or watch; the clock face.
- The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
- Presence; sight; front.
- An aspect of the character or nature of someone or something.
- Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
- The directed force of something.
- Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
- The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- A typeface.
- A mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
- Good reputation; standing, in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
verb
- To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat (transverse) surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical (axial) surface.
- To have the front in a certain direction.
- To arrange the products in (a store) so that they are tidy and attractive.
- To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.
- To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.
- To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
- To have as an opponent.
- To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
- To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
- To be the batsman on strike.
- To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
- To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
- To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
verb
- to physically appear a certain way to another individual or group
- perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; look
- give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect
- search or seek
- be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
- take charge of or deal with
- convey by one's expression
- look forward to the probable occurrence of
- accord in appearance with
- have faith or confidence in
noun
verb
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To burst out into violence.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To perform a flash.
- To be visible briefly.
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To make visible briefly.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To communicate quickly.
noun
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pool.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A form of military insignia.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- A very short amount of time.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
adj
adj
- Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
- Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
- Mock, pretended.
noun
- An imitation.
- A comic who does impressions.
- An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.
- A mime.
verb
verb
- To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
- To extend beyond a surface.
- To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard from a large distance away.
- To make plans for; to forecast.
- To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
- To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
- (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location
- To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
- To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure.
- To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
noun
verb
verb
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- engage in
- give certain properties to something
- make or cause to be or to become
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- create or manufacture a man-made product
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way
- create by artistic means
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- create or design, often in a certain way
- to compose or represent
- reach a goal
- be or be capable of being changed or made into
- make by shaping or bringing together constituents
- perform, produce, or carry out
- make by combining materials and parts
- change from one form into another
- act in a certain way so as to acquire
- charge with a function; charge to be
- achieve a point or goal
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- institute, enact, or establish
- carry out or commit
- form by assembling individuals or constituents
- organize or be responsible for
- put in order or neaten
- head into a specified direction
- have a bowel movement
- undergo fabrication or creation
- be suitable for
- add up to
- amount to
- constitute the essence of
- appear to begin an activity
- proceed along a path
- reach in time
- gather and light the materials for
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- induce to have sex
- assure the success of
- consider as being
- calculate as being
- cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable
- favor the development of
- develop into
- behave in a certain manner
- eliminate urine
noun
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