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noun
- The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- One of a string of small islands.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- A keystone.
- The last board of a floor when laid down.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- A color to be masked or made transparent.
- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
verb
- To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To depress (a telegraph key).
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
adj
noun
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- (metonymy) a singer
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- the ability to speak
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
verb
noun
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- an intense or violent exertion
- the act of singing
verb
- to exert much effort or energy
- test the limits of
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- become stretched or tense or taut
- remove by passing through a filter
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
adj
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- not modified or restricted by reservations
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- having lost effervescence
- horizontally level
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
- not reflecting light; not glossy
- commercially inactive
adj
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
noun
- a level tract of land
- a shallow box in which seedlings are started
- a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
- a deflated pneumatic tire
- scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
adv
noun
- Style of discourse or usage, or any particular utterance in such style.
- A phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals through repeated usage.
- A supernatural revelation where a religious figure, statue or icon speaks, usually to a saint.
- The use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way.
noun
- A change in pitch or tone of voice.
- Change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories.
- Diffraction.
- Any form produced by such an instance of a change, such as the principal parts for any given stem: any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
- An affix representing such an instance.
- A turning away from a straight course.
- A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
- An instance of such change.
noun
- A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
- An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
- A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
- A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
verb
noun
- The action of the verb to sound.
- Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
- The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
- Test made with a probe or sonde.
- A measured depth of water.
- The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
adj
noun
- A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
- A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
- Reputation; distinction.
- A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
- A short informal letter; a billet.
- A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
- A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment
- A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
- A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
- Observation; notice; heed.
- The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.
- A diplomatic missive or written communication.
- A call or song of a bird.
- A critical comment.
- A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
- A key of the piano or organ.
- That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
- An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse.
verb
- To denote; to designate.
- To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
- To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
- To annotate.
- To set down in musical characters.
- To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
verb
- To deliver (a speech), say (lines of a play, words), etc., in a dramatic or emotional manner, especially if overly so.
- To express a virtual action, presented to other users as a graphic or reported speech, rather than sending a straightforward message.
- To display or express (emotions, mental states, etc.) openly, particularly while acting, and especially in an excessive manner.
- To display (excessive) emotion, especially while acting.
noun
noun
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A verse (in poetry).
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The goal line.
- An edge of a graph.
- A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- The equator.
- A vascular catheter.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- A hose or pipe, of any size.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- Direction, path.
- A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude
- One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- One twelfth of an inch.
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- A clothesline.
- The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
- A group of forwards that play together.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
verb
- To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
- To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- To read or repeat line by line.
- To form a line along.
- To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- To measure.
- To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
noun
noun
- The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
- The quality of being respectable or admirable.
- The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- A specific pitch.
- (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
- a gun
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
- (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
verb
- to give a particular tone to
- to change the colour of
- to utter with an affected tone.
- to make (something) firmer
pron
noun
- The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
- This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).
- Manner of speaking, often habitually.
- A language.
- Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
- A reed.
- A small sole (type of fish).
- Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- Glossolalia.
- In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
- An individual point of flame from a fire.
- A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
- A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
- A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).
- The clapper of a bell.
verb
noun
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
- (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
- rise and fall of the voice pitch
- the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
noun
- Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
- The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
- The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people or the coda one in words like cold or coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in African American Vernacular English, one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.
- The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
- The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
- The use of speech to express an idea
- The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
noun
- A general category of oratory.
- The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
- A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
- Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
- A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.
verb
- To convey by speech; to say.
- To order; to direct, to say to someone.
- To instruct or inform.
- To narrate.
- To reveal.
- 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 discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
- 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 speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
- A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
- A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
- Patter; rigmarole.
- Language; tongue.
- A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
noun
- The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
- Speakerphone.
- The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.
- The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
- A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
- A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (cf octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.
- One who makes a speech to an audience.
- One who speaks.
- Loudspeaker.
noun
- The tone of voice or sound in music.
- A specific blend of whisky.
- A colloquialism or idiom.
- The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
- An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
- The process of translating a gene into a protein.
- A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
- (manufacturing) The act of pressing or squeezing out.
- A particular way of phrasing an idea.
- A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
- emotional involvement or engagement in a text read aloud rendered by the voice of the reciter or the reader
verb
- To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically.
- To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
- To examine closely; to scrutinize.
- To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.
- Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.
noun
noun
- a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- an offensive move in a sport or game
- intense adverse criticism
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- the act of attacking
- a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
- strong criticism
verb
noun
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- The number of steps per minute.
- A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
- A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- A dance move which ends a phrase.
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
- The frequency of regular product releases.
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- cadency
verb
verb
- utter or express by whistling
- make whistling sounds
- move with, or as with, a whistling sound
- move, send, or bring as if by whistling
- make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound
- give a signal by whistling
noun
- the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture
- the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle
- a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it
- acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound
- an inexpensive fipple flute
noun
- The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
- A computer language; a machine language.
- A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
- Profanity.
- A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
- Manner of expression.
- The ability to communicate using words.
- The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
- A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
verb
intj
noun
- The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
- The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
- A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
- Language used orally, rather than in writing.
- An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
- Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
- A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
verb
adj
- Of or relating to tones or tonality.
- Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
- Of or relating to the general character, mood, or trend of something.
- Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
noun
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