beginning
appendage
morning
some time
span
semiexpanded
intermediately
preportioned
proroguing
geography
interluded
elongation
overlap
protension
upsection
extension
dree
subassemblage
upper
interform
outpart
middle
subelongated
brunt
middle reaches
outportion
meat and potatoes
detail
midsectional
inter-
aparithmesis
extendedness
setting
meso-
contexture
particular
comma
sectional
disposition
cap
analysis
piece
protensive
item
mesothetic
prolongation
some
pre-emption
underportion
duelsome
penetralium
appendicle
preemption
prorupt
lengthiness
interpose
every second
extraspective
augmentive
extensionally
residual
outfitting
componentwise
extensional
annex
dawn
midsection
extended
residuary
shank
echelonment
upward
distally
midsegmental
outstretched
multibit
intersticed
inclusion
exotegmic
driblet
piggyback
mid-size
interassemblage
piecewise
comprehension
shred
side-by-side
extensity
first-of-its-kind
stretch
constitutive
deep
beginning
semiexpanded
preportioned
interluded
subelongated
midsectional
sectional
protensive
mesothetic
duelsome
prorupt
extraspective
residual
componentwise
extensional
extended
residuary
midsegmental
outstretched
multibit
intersticed
exotegmic
piggyback
mid-size
interassemblage
side-by-side
constitutive
deep
intermediately
upsection
extensionally
upward
distally
piecewise
beginning
appendage
morning
some time
span
proroguing
geography
elongation
protension
extension
dree
subassemblage
upper
interform
outpart
middle
brunt
middle reaches
outportion
meat and potatoes
detail
aparithmesis
extendedness
setting
contexture
particular
comma
disposition
cap
analysis
piece
item
prolongation
pre-emption
underportion
penetralium
appendicle
preemption
lengthiness
every second
augmentive
outfitting
annex
dawn
midsection
shank
echelonment
inclusion
driblet
comprehension
extensity
first-of-its-kind
stretch
overlap
interpose
shred
noun
- The initial portion of some extended thing.
- The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
- That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
adj
noun
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- The space of all linear combinations of something.
- A small space or a brief portion of time.
- The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
verb
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.
verb
- To extend over and partly cover something.
- Of sets: to have some elements in common.
- To have an area, range, character or function in common.
- To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
noun
- Something that overlaps or is overlapped
- a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.
- The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period.
noun
- an addition to the length of something
- amount or degree or range to which something extends
- a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt
- act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
- act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
- a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
- an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
- an addition that extends a main building
noun
- The upper portion of something
- A denture or retainer for the teeth in the upper jaw.
- The piece of leather, etc., that forms the top part of a shoe above the sole.
- An upper berth or bunk.
- That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
- A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.
- Someone with higher social standing
- A spiritual passageway through which consciousness can reach a higher dimension.
- A senior student.
- A tooth in the upper jaw.
- The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.
adj
noun
noun
- an intermediate part or section
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
- the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process
adj
- of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
- between an earlier and a later period of time
adj
verb
noun
noun
noun
- Something set in, or inserted.
- The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
- The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
- The direction of a current of wind.
- A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
- A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
- A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.
- The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- The act of setting.
- Hunting with a setter.
adj
noun
- A brief interval.
- A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
- In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
- The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
verb
adj
noun
- A tournament or match held at the section level, typically between the regionals and the championships.
- An item of furniture composed of modular sections; usually specifically a sectional sofa.
- A sectional chart, a type of map used for navigation in the air.
- A band sectional, in which one section of a band or orchestra practices separately.
noun
- The arrangement or placement of certain things.
- Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
- Control over something, especially with regard to disposing or dispensing with an action item (disposal of a concern, allocation of disbursed funds) or control over the arrangement or placement of certain things.
- The destination of a patient after medical treatment, especially after emergency triage, first line treatment, or surgery; the choice made for the next venue of care.
- Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
- Final decision or settlement.
- Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
- The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
verb
noun
- The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
- An uppercase or capital letter.
- A recording or screenshot.
- Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
- The top part of a mushroom.
- A place on a national team; an international appearance.
- An academic mortarboard.
- A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
- A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
- A lie or exaggeration.
- The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- The summit of a mountain, etc.
- A large size of writing paper.
- A crown for covering a tooth.
- A capitalist.
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
- capillary
- Capitalization.
- A protective cover or seal.
- A capacitor.
- A capsule of a drug.
- Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
- A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
- A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
- A bullet used to shoot someone.
- A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
verb
- To set an upper limit on something.
- To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
- To lie over or on top of something.
- To convert text to uppercase.
- To make something even more wonderful at the end.
- To lie; to tell a lie.
- To select to play for the national team.
- To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
- To select a player to play for a specified side.
- To cover or seal with a cap.
- To surpass or outdo.
- To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
- To deprive of a cap.
noun
- an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole
- the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations
- a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed
- the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'
- a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation
- a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud
noun
- a separate part of a whole
- an item that is an instance of some type
- a portion of a natural object
- a musical work that has been created
- an instance of some kind
- an artistic or literary composition
- a portable gun
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- a distance
- a work of art of some artistic value
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a share of something
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
verb
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
adj
noun
noun
noun
- The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
- The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
- A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
- A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
- The main part or beginning of a period of time.
- Meat from that part of an animal.
- The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
- An improvised stabbing weapon.
- The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
- The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
- A loop forming an eye to a button.
- The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
- The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
- Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
adj
verb
- To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
- To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
- To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
- To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
- To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
- To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
adj
- Attached or appended to something larger or more important.
- On somebody's back or shoulders.
- Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.
verb
- To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway waggon
- To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
- To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.
- To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
- To enter a secured area at the same time along with someone having authorized access; to tailgate
- To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
adv
noun
verb
- To become separated into small portions.
- To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast.
- To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
adj
noun
- A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
noun
- A segment or length of material.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- A jail or prison term.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
verb
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To pull tight.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To increase.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
adj
- Extending to a level or length equivalent to the stated thing.
- In a (specified) number of rows or layers.
- Positioned or reaching far, especially down through something or into something.
- Voluminous.
- Far in extent in another (non-downwards, but generally also non-upwards) direction away from a point of reference.
- Low in pitch.
- Far from the center of the playing area, near to the boundary of the playing area, either in absolute terms or relative to a point of reference.
- Distant in the past, ancient.
- Significant, not superficial, in extent.
- Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
- Extending far down from the top, or surface, to the bottom, literally or figuratively.
- Penetrating a long way, especially a long way forward.
- Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; intricate; obscure.
- Positioned back, or downfield, towards one's own goal, or towards or behind one's baseline or similar reference point.
- Thick.
- Profound, having great meaning or import, but possibly obscure or not obvious.
- Highly saturated; rich.
- Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).
- Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
noun
- A deep hole or pit, a water well; an abyss.
- A deep shade of colour.
- A silent time; quiet isolation.
- The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
- The profound part of a problem.
- A fielding position near the boundary.
- The sea, the ocean.
adv
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