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noun
- The normal course of an activity, particularly in circumstances that are out of the ordinary.
- The normal execution of standard functional operations within an organisation, particularly in contrast to a project or program which would introduce change (although that change may itself become business as usual).
adj
noun
- an activity that varies from a norm or standard
- an event that departs from expectations
- discord that splits a group
- the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value
- a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
- the quality of being subject to variation
- an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)
noun
- an activity that varies from a norm or standard
- an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
- a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
- something a little different from others of the same type
- an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard
- the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north
- the process of varying or being varied
- (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
- the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard
noun
- The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.
- One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.
- A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.
- A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass.
- A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
- The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.
- A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment.
- A penny farthing bicycle.
- A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.
- An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.
adj
verb
- To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis.
- To accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from.
- To implement, to employ, to put into use.
- To review the solutions to a test or other assessment with a class.
- To occupy; to consume (space or time).
- Synonym of take in (“tighten a belaying rope”)
- To resume.
- To pick up.
- To address (an issue).
- To shorten by hemming.
noun
- a particular aspect of life or activity
- a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle
- a social group that forms part of the society or the economy
- the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes
- a portion of a military position
- measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end
noun
- a particular aspect of life or activity
- a particular environment or walk of life
- any spherically shaped artifact
- the geographical area in which one nation is very influential
- a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses)
- a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center
- the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
noun
- A field of activity.
- An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- A seafront or coastal promenade.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- The beginning.
- The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- The direction of the enemy.
- The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
adj
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one).
- Located at or near the front.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
verb
- To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- To appear before.
- To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- To face, be opposite to.
adj
- lacking activity; lying idle or unused
- (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly
- (military) not involved in military operations
- not exerting influence or change
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- lacking in energy or will
- not engaged in full-time work
- not active physically or mentally
adj
noun
- an interruption of normal activity
- a support or foundation
- the position where a thing or person stands
- a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area
- a small table for holding articles of various kinds
- a support for displaying ot holding various articles
- a mental position from which things are viewed
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance
- tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)
- a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air
- a defensive effort
verb
- be standing; be upright
- be in some specified state or condition
- occupy a place or location, also metaphorically
- hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- have or maintain a position or stand on an issue
- remain inactive or immobile
- be in effect; be or remain in force
- be tall; have a height of; copula
- put into an upright position
- withstand the force of something
- be available for stud services
verb
- To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
- To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
- To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
- To grow bright; to brighten.
- To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
- Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
- To give life; to make alive.
- To inspire or stimulate.
- To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
- To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
- To come back to life, to receive life.
- To become quicker or faster.
- Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
- To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
noun
adj
- Concernaing a process that abnormally takes place outside of its normal system as well as within its normal system.
- Arising from the interaction of separate people or entities.
- Concerning an effect in one entity that is controlled or influenced by a separate entity, such as when one ligand influences the binding of another ligand.
prep_phrase
noun
- A small interval of time free to be spent on activities other than one's primary goal.
- A small opening or space between objects, especially adjacent objects or objects set closely together, as between cords in a rope or components of a multiconductor electrical cable or between atoms in a crystal.
- An interval of time required by the Roman Catholic Church between the attainment of different degrees of an order.
- A fragment of space.
verb
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
- To place conditions or limitations upon.
- To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
- To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
- To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- To subject to the process of acclimation.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
- To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
- To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
noun
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A requirement or requisite.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
- A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
- The state or quality.
- A particular state of being.
verb
- To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
- To be likely.
- To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
- To want, desire. See also would like.
- To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
- To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
- To accept as an input.
conj
noun
- An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.
- The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
- Something that a person likes (prefers).
- Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.
prep
- Typical of
- Approximating
- In the manner of, similarly to
- Such as
- Similar to, reminiscent of
- As if there would be
- Used to ask for a description or opinion of someone or something
adv
particle
- A delayed filler.
- Likely.
- Indicating approximation or uncertainty.
- Used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase or an expression of something that happened.
adj
noun
- A meaningless cycle; a bustle of activity that gets nowhere
- A piece of playground equipment consisting of a circular platform that is made to revolve by pushing while users stand on it.
- A series of singles and doubles that allow the batting team to score while still having runners on base who can be driven in by the next batter.
- A carousel; a pleasure ride, typically found at fairs and amusement parks, consisting of a slowly revolving circular platform on which various seats are fixed, frequently shaped like horses or other animals.
- A freight train of hopper wagons which loads and unloads its cargo while moving, a balloon loop being provided at power stations.
- A cooperative scheme in which members regularly contribute money to a pool, and the collected money is then paid out to one of the members, repeating so that every member has eventually received the collected money.
noun
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
verb
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- influence decisively
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- hang loosely
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- have a certain musical rhythm
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
noun
- A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- Death; passing from life into death.
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- A change of key.
- A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
- The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
verb
noun
- a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- a sunken or depressed geological formation
- sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- pushing down
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
adv
verb
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
adj
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
verb
- To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
- To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
- To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
- To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
- To stop using a company's product or service.
- To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
- To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
noun
- A milk churn.
- The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
- Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
- A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
- The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
- Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
noun
- the usual activities in your day
- a charge of ammunition for a single shot
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
- the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- the course along which communications spread
- a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
- a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- an outburst of applause
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- any circular or rotating mechanism
adj
verb
- wind around; move along a circular course
- make round
- pronounce with rounded lips
- attack in speech or writing
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
- express as a round number
- become round, plump, or shapely
adv
adj
noun
verb
adj
verb
- have on hand
- equip with a stock
- supply with fish
- supply with livestock
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
noun
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- a supply of something available for future use
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- an ornamental white cravat
- any animals kept for use or profit
noun
- Excessive indulgence in a specified activity.
- Originally, secret rites or ceremonies, typically involving riotous and dissolute behaviour, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honour of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc).
- A gathering of people to engage in group sex.
noun
- A laborious but arbitrary and futile activity; an activity that amounts to running around in a circle, expending great energy but not accomplishing anything.
- The competitive process in which a political party selects their candidate, especially presidential; a primary election via caucus.
- A political competition; the game of campaigning and one-upmanship to get votes and be elected.
- A win-win system; a positive system in which everybody wins.
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