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center of gravity
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job
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mode
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adj
- Of the inner nature of a thing.
- Within the body.
- Concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.
- Applied or intended for application through the stomach by being swallowed.
- Concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other organisation.
- Attending a university as well as taking its examinations.
- Of or situated on the inside.
- Experienced in one's mind; inner rather than expressed.
- Present or arising within an organism or one of its parts.
noun
noun
- An inner part.
- A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.
- One who supports remaining in the European Union.
- A forward who plays in or near the center of the field.
- The 2nd circle on a target, between the bull (or bull's eye) and magpie.
- A duvet, excluding the cover.
adj
- Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.
- Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.
- Inside or closer to the inside of the body.
- Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence.
- Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup.
- Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure; innermost or essential; needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood.
adj
- innermost or essential
- marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity
- concerning things deeply private and personal
- having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere
- having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship
- used euphemistically to refer to the genitals
- involved in a sexual relationship
- thoroughly acquainted through study or experience
noun
verb
adj
adv
noun
- A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
- The winged seed of the ben tree.
- Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).
- A Scottish or Irish mountain or high peak.
- The oil of the ben seed.
- Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).
prep
noun
- the action of enfolding something
- reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
- a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- the act of sharing in the activities of a group
- the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
adj
- Naturally part of something; existing throughout and within something; intrinsic.
- Of something which has always already been.
- Being within the limits of experience or knowledge.
- Taking place entirely within the mind of the subject and having no effect outside of it. Compare emanant, transeunt.
- Existing within and throughout the mind and the world; dwelling within and throughout all things, all time, etc. Compare transcendent.
- Restricted entirely to the mind or a given domain; internal; subjective.
noun
- The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
- The greatest extremity; the maximum
- The final or most distant point; the conclusion
adj
- Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- That will happen at some time; eventual.
- Final; last in a series.
- Last in a word or other utterance.
- Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
- Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
noun
- The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
- The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
- Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
- A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
- The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
- Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
- A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography
- The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
noun
- The act or process of making whole or entire.
- The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.
- The operation of finding the integral of a function.
- In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development.
- The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
noun
- The interior or inner part.
- The inside scoop; information known only to certain involved people.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
prep
- Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
- Within a period of time.
adj
- Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.
- Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
- At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
- Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
adv
noun
- a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities
- a coordinated sequence of chess moves
- a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock
- a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose
- an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)
- the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
- the act of combining things to form a new whole
noun
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- the act or process of dividing
- an administrative unit in government or business
- discord that splits a group
- a league ranked by quality
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a group of ships of similar type
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
noun
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- a portion of a natural object
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- the extended spatial location of something
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- an item that is an instance of some type
verb
- go one's own way; move apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
- force, take, or pull apart
adv
noun
- the act or process of producing something
- a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television
- an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
- (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law
- the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
- a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated
- (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale
- the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services
noun
- a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
- a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
- (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
- a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
adj
adj
noun
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
verb
noun
- The way things are arranged or put together in order to achieve a result.
- Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.
- Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing's shape; figure; form factor.
- The arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure like a crystal.
- A finite set of points and lines (and sometimes planes), generally with equal numbers of points per line and equal numbers of lines per point.
noun
noun
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- The inherent nature of something.
- Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.
- A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)
- A sovereign or guinea.
- pound sterling (usually only used with a whole number of pounds)
- the act of chewing such tobacco
- dollar, dollars
- A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.
- various national currencies typically known by the name "pound"
- euro
verb
noun
- A basic conceptual structure.
- The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
- The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
noun
- The act by which something is unpacked.
- The separation of the features of a segment (such as a nasal vowel or palatal consonant) into distinct segments; for example, the separation of a nasal vowel such as /ɑ̃/ into a vowel /ɑ/ and a nasal consonant /n/ (i.e., into /ɑn/) which often occurs when a language which does not use nasal vowels borrows from a language which does use them.
noun
- The process of making something external, or visible from the outside.
- In Freudian psychology, an unconscious defense mechanism by which an individual "projects" his or her own internal characteristics onto the outside world or other people.
- A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
noun
- The act or process by which something is sanded; the application of sandpaper, etc.
- The process of applying sand to rails in railway track to aid adhesion.
- A type of dancing where the floor is covered in sand. See Sanding (dance).
- The process of testing the surface of gilding, after it has been fired, with fine sand and water.
- The process of burying oysters in sand.
noun
- The most central or important part of something, which its other parts are considered in relation to.
- A point, near or within a body, through which its weight can be assumed to act when considering forces on the body and its motion under gravity. This coincides with the center of mass in a uniform gravitational field.
prefix
verb
- To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
- To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
- To mark with a prime mark.
- To apply a coat of primer paint to.
- To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
- To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
noun
- An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
- Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
- A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
- The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
- The religious service appointed to this hour.
- The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
- A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- The chief or best individual or part.
- The first note or tone of a musical scale.
- An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
adj
- First in time, order, or sequence.
- Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
- First in excellence, quality, or value.
- Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
- Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
- First in importance, degree, or rank.
- Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
noun
- the act of tying or binding things together
- (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
- a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone
- thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood)
- something used to tie or bind
noun
- a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
adv
noun
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
- the responsibility to do something
- the performance of a piece of work
- a damaging piece of work
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a crime (especially a robbery)
verb
noun
- how something is done or how it happens
- a particular functioning condition or arrangement
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
- the most frequent value of a random variable
noun
- An outer part.
- Someone who outs another.
- The 4th circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
- The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.
- A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
- One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
- An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
- Someone who admits to something publicly.
- One who supports leaving the European Union.
- An ouster; dispossession.
adj
noun
- how something is done or how it happens
- a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
- a particular kind (as to appearance)
- the popular taste at a given time
- (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
- editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
- distinctive and stylish elegance
- a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
- a slender bristlelike or tubular process
verb
noun
- how something is done or how it happens
- to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
- a line leading to a place or point
- the condition of things generally
- a course of conduct
- any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another
- a journey or passage
- space for movement
- the property of distance in general
- doing as one pleases or chooses
- a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'
- a portion of something divided into shares
adv
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