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adj
- of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- Depending on itself; independent.
- of a dye that does not need the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed
verb
noun
noun
- A quality or characteristic tinge.
- A pleasant taste.
- Enjoyment; pleasure.
- A taste (for); liking (of); fondness.
- A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.
- In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.
- Something that is greatly liked or savoured.
verb
verb
- To express the essential nature of something.
- To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
- To establish the referent of a term or notation.
- To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
- To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
- To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
noun
verb
- constitute the essence of
- 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
- 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
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- 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
noun
- Inessential or superficial features.
- Outward appearance.
- A variable that is defined in the source code but whose value comes from some external source.
- The exterior; outward features or appearances.
adj
- Relating to or denoting a medicine or similar substance for use on the outside of the body.
- Having existence independent of the mind.
- Situated near or toward the surface of the body.
- For or concerning students registered with and taking the examinations of a university but not resident there.
- Not contained in the main computer.
- Outside of something; on the exterior.
- Not intrinsic or essential.
- Provided by something or someone outside of the entity (object, group, company etc.) considered.
- Using a disk or tape drive rather than the main memory.
- Relating to or connected with foreign nations or institutions.
- Having merely the outward appearance of something.
noun
- The best or most substantial part of something.
- A penis.
- The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
- Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
- A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
- The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
- A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
- A meathead.
noun
- The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
- A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
- The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
- The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
- A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
- An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
- A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
- A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
- The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
- Used to designate the main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
- The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
- An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).
- The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
- A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
- The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
- The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
- A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
- The center or inner part of a space or area.
- The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
- The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
- A miner's underground working time or shift.
- The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
verb
- To cut or drill through the core of (something).
- To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
- To extract a sample with a drill.
adj
noun
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- The children's game of tag.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- Form; standard of performance.
verb
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To concern, to have to do with.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To consume, or otherwise use.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- To come close to; to approach.
noun
- A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to.
- A small part of the whole.
- A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
- Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
- An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
- One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
- A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
- The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
- One of the objects in a set.
- One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
- One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
- Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
- A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
- An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
- The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
- One of the entries of a matrix.
noun
noun
- the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized
- a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe
- the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.
- the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions
- a particular type of thing
noun
- The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
- A particular geographic region.
- Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
- An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings.
- Genitals.
- A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
- Penalty box; penalty area.
noun
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- The details; particulars.
- A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
- Specification
adj
- of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
- similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- Hyponyms: monospecific, multispecific, oligospecific, paucispecific
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
- pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- special, distinctive or unique.
- being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
- explicit or definite.
noun
- A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
- A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
- A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
- Bernoulli's Principle
- An original faculty or endowment.
- A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
- A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
- Moral rule or aspect.
verb
noun
- The quality of being or having a likely location in which to prospect for minerals.
- The state of being prospective rather than retrospective.
- A projective relationship between a line and itself by projecting onto an intersecting line from a point on another line that intersects at the same point, and then back on to the first line from a different point on the first intersecting line.
noun
- The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.
- A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).
- A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically
- An order of magnitude.
- Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.
- The apparent brightness of a star, with lower magnitudes being brighter; apparent magnitude
- A ratio of intensity expressed as a logarithm.
adj
noun
- An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
- The act of affecting or acting upon.
- The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.
- An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
- A feeling of love or strong attachment.
noun
- a prominent attribute or aspect of something
- a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
- the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2
- any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
adj
verb
- To give material form or substance to; to embody.
- To reify or hypostatize; to treat something that is fluid or abstract as a static entity without regard to nuance or change in character.
- To endow with a consciousness, will, motivation and independent existence; to give life to; to hypostatize.
- To transform into or treat syntactically as a noun; to make into or use as a substantive.
noun
- The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
- Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
- A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
- Semen, jizz.
- Energy, excitement, excitability.
- Nonsense.
verb
noun
- a prominent attribute or aspect of something
- the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin
- the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater
- a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine
- (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind
- an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles
verb
adj
- Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.
- Relating to the statistical mode.
- Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
- Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
- Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
- Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
- Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
- a modal dialog; a modal window
noun
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
- A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
- A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
- A (small) alcoholic drink.
- The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.
- An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
- A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
- A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms; namely, a colour, fur, or metal.
- A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
verb
- Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
- To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
- To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
- To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
noun
- A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
- A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.
- A distinctive accent.
adj
- Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
- Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
- Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
- Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
- Characteristic, typical.
- Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
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