English words for 'The position of a foreman.'
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- A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
- a person responsible for hiring workers
- A person in charge of a business or company.
- (geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
- (humorous) One's wife.
- (architecture) A roughly cut stone set in place for later carving.
- (mechanics) A protrusion; frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
- (archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
- A head or reservoir of water.
- A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
- (informal, especially India, MLE and Philippines) A term of address to a man, especially a customer, but also sometimes to a friend or acquaintance of equal standing.
- The head of a political party in a given region or district.
- A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
- (Australia) The male owner or man in charge of a large rural property.
- (video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.
- A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
- (architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
- a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments
- a person who exercises control and makes decisions
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- a person who exercises control over workers
- Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done.
- (slang) An erect penis.
- (firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.
- a rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm
- a rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm
- a harshly demanding overseer
- the foreman of a work gang
- (nautical) A length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.
- A horse that goes quickly.
- (coal mining) One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
- (business, rail transport) One who oversees a gang of workmen.
- (chiefly Scotland) One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- An appointed position in an organization, job.
- a job in an organization
- (film, informal) Post-production.
- (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
- (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- An assigned station; a guard post.
- The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
- (sports) A goalpost.
- A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
- (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
- (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
- (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
- A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
- An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
- A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
- A pole in a battery.
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
- (medicine, informal) A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- military installation at which a body of troops is stationed
- an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
- A message on a social media website
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- the delivery and collection of letters and packages
- To assign to a station; to set; to place.
- (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
- To travel quickly; to hurry.
- (law) To pay bail.
- To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
- To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
- (gambling) To pay (a stake or blind).
- (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
- (UK, Ireland, India, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
- (transitive, by extension) To announce publicly; to publish.
- (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
- To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
- (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
- To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- place so as to be noticed
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- To post a message on a social media website
- ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
- affix in a public place or for public notice
- enter on a public list
- assign to a post; put into a post
- publicize with, or as if with, a poster
- assign to a station
- mark or expose as infamous
- mark with a stake
- display, as of records in sports games
- (historical, mining) The foreman or overman of a mine.
- (historical, Norman term) A reeve, (specifically) the chief officer executing the decisions of any English court in the period following the Norman Conquest or executing the decisions of lower courts in the late medieval and early modern period.
- (historical) An overseer: a supervisor of tenant farmers, serfs, or slaves, usually as part of his role as steward (see above).
- (historical) A steward: the manager of a medieval manor charged with collecting its rents, etc.
- (US) Any law enforcement officer charged with courtroom security and order.
- (UK) A bound bailiff: a deputy bailiff charged with debt collection.
- (UK) A high bailiff: an officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders, appointed by the judge and removable by the Lord Chancellor.
- The High Bailiff of the Isle of Man.
- (historical) An appointee of the French king administering certain districts of northern France in the Middle Ages.
- (historical) A head of a district ("bailiwick") of the Knights Hospitaller; a head of one of the national associations ("tongues") of the Hospitallers' headquarters on Rhodes or Malta.
- The chief justice and president of the legislature on Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
- (UK, slang) Any debt collector, regardless of his or her official status.
- A huissier de justice or other foreign officer of the court acting as either a process server or as courtroom security.
- The title of the mayor of certain English towns.
- (historical) A landvogt in the medieval German states.
- The title of the castellan of certain royal castles in England.
- (historical) Synonym of hundredman: The chief officer of a hundred in medieval England.
- an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
- (mining, historical) The manager of a colliery, who directs its workings and ventilation.
- Someone who watches television.
- (computing) A program that displays the contents of a file.
- (now historical) An appointed inspector or examiner:
- Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.
- Any optical device used to view photographic slides.
- a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
- an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies
- A person who manages or executes the plans and directives of another, more senior person; a manager to their director.
- (military, US) A commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard, Public Health Service, or National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration whose rank is above that of ensign and below lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
- (military, UK) A naval officer whose rank is above that of sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander.
- (military, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A naval commissioned officer who holds the rank above sub-lieutenant and below lieutenant commander.
- The second-in-command (2IC) of a group.
- (military, US) In the US Army, Air Force and Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant" or as the complete forms of the ranks.
- (military, US, navy) A naval officer whose rank is above that of ensign in the United States Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
- (military, UK) A commissioned officer in the British Army and Royal Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant"; however, "second lieutenant" is to specify that the officer is not yet a full lieutenant.
- a commissioned military officer
- an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade
- an officer in a police force
- an assistant with power to act when their superior is absent
- One in the position of controlling or directing; a controller, a director, a guide.
- (Northern England (Cumberland, Westmorland)) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain, especially one associated with a storm.
- (nautical) The member of a vessel's crew in charge of steering the vessel; a helmsman or helmswoman.
- (nautical) The use of a helm (sense 1); also, the amount of space through which a helm is turned.
- (countable) A stalk of corn, or (uncountable) stalks of corn collectively (that is, straw), especially when bundled together or laid out straight to be used for thatching roofs.
- (nautical) The tiller (or, in a large ship, the wheel) which is used to steer the rudder of a marine vessel; also, the entire steering apparatus of a vessel.
- (uncountable) Alternative form of haulm (“the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching”).
- (heraldry) Synonym of helmet (“the feature above a shield on a coat of arms”).
- Something used to control or steer; also (obsolete), a handle of a tool or weapon; a haft, a helve.
- (Northern England) A shelter for cattle or other farm animals; a hemmel, a shed.
- A position of control or leadership.
- steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered
- (figurative) a position of leadership
- (transitive) To lay out (stalks of corn, or straw) straight to be used for thatching roofs; to yelm.
- (figuratively) To direct or lead (a project, etc.); to manage (an organization).
- (nautical) To control the helm (noun sense 1) of (a marine vessel); to be in charge of steering (a vessel).
- be at or take the helm of
- a person responsible for the administration of a business
- someone who manages a government agency or department
- persons who administer the law
- (computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
- The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
- A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
- In the employment of.
- Affected by (a certain emotion or condition).
- Considering; taking into account.
- Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
- Using as an instrument; by means of.
- In regard to.
- In addition to; as an accessory to.
- Keeping up with; understanding; following along.
- Against.
- Prompted by (a certain emotion).
- Having, owning.
- In support of.
- In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
- someone employed to conduct others
- something that offers basic information or instruction
- a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- a model or standard for making comparisons
- someone who shows the way by leading or advising
- Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc.
- Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
- A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
- A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
- (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
- (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
- Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- take somebody somewhere
- be a guiding or motivating force or drive
- use as a guide
- pass over, across, or through
- To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
- To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
- To supervise the education or training of someone.
- To exert control or influence over someone or something.
- (intransitive) To act as a guide.
- someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)
- a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action
- a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country
- Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of (often automated) output.
- (rare, bodybuilding) Clipping of bodybuilder.
- One who builds or constructs things.
- (trading) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
- someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)
- (crosswording, chiefly US) A person who creates crossword puzzles.
- (object-oriented programming) A class method that creates and initializes each instance of an object.
- A person who, or thing that, constructs.
- (automotive) A company which, or individual who, builds racing vehicles. In Formula One, constructor status is strictly defined by the rules, but in other motorsports the term is merely a descriptor. Depending on the racing rules, some constructors (e.g. Cosworth) may provide vehicles to racing teams who are not themselves constructors, while others are both teams and constructors (Ducati Corse, Scuderia Ferrari).
- a job in an organization
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
- An assigned place for a person in (chiefly historical) a horse-drawn coach or other means of transportation, or (military) in a barracks.
- (by extension) A room in a vessel in which the officers or company mess (“eat together”) and reside; also, a room or other place in a vessel for storage.
- (road transport) A place for a vehicle on land to park.
- Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space for manoeuvring or safety.
- A bunk or other bed for sleeping on in a caravan, a train, etc.
- A position on a field of play.
- (by extension) A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the side of a cabin.
- (chiefly nautical, slang) A proper place for a thing.
- A position or seed in a tournament bracket.
- (by extension) A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.
- An appointment, job, or position, especially one regarded as comfortable or good.
- (by extension) A job or position on a vessel.
- come into or dock at a wharf
- provide with a berth
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock
- (by extension) Of a person: to occupy a berth.
- (reflexive, nautical) Of a vessel: to move into a berth.
- (nautical) To bring (a ship or other vessel) into a berth (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1); also, to provide a berth for (a vessel).
- (by extension, chiefly passive voice) To assign (someone) a berth (noun etymology 1 sense 1.3 or etymology 1 sense 2.2) or place to sleep on a vessel, a train, etc.
- (figurative) To provide (someone) with a berth (noun etymology 1 sense 3.1) or appointment, job, or position.
- (specifically, astronautics) To use a device to bring (a spacecraft) into its berth or dock.
- a job in an organization
- place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
- an administrative unit of government
- professional or clerical workers in an office
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
- a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
- (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
- (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
- A position of responsibility.
- (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
- (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
- (Christianity) Last rites.
- (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
- (UK law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office:
- (Protestantism) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
- (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
- (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
- (UK, Australia, usually capitalized, with clarifying modifier) A ministry or other department of government.
- A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
- (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
- A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
- Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
- (figuratively) The staff of such places.
- (chiefly US, medicine) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
- (Catholicism, usually capitalized) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
- (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
- a job in an organization
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- a blank area
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- a public square with room for pedestrians
- proper or appropriate position or location
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- proper or designated social situation
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- the passage that is being read
- any area set aside for a particular purpose
- a particular situation
- where you live at a particular time
- a general vicinity
- an abstract mental location
- A state of mind.
- Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- Any area of the earth: a region.
- The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
- A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader
- An area of the body, especially the skin.
- The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
- A location or position in space.
- An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
- The position as a member of a sports team.
- An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
- (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
- (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- A role or purpose; a station.
- The position of a contestant in a competition.
- (horse racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
- make an investment
- assign a location to
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
- assign to a station
- finish second or better in a horse or dog race
- identify the location or place of
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- assign a rank or rating to
- locate
- sing a note with the correct pitch
- to arrange for
- assign to (a job or a home)
- estimate
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- place somebody in a particular situation or location
- (transitive, in collocations) To make.
- (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- (transitive) To bet.
- (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
- (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
- (transitive) To vouch for someone's alibi.
- (ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
- (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
- (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- (transitive) To assign (more or less value) to something.
- a job in an organization
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a rationalized mental attitude
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A posture.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
- a job in an organization
- a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
- physical position in relation to the surroundings
- (slang) An outfit, garment, or look.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- (US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- (UK) A position of employment; a post.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
- A manager; an actual occupant; a land-tenant holding under the farmer or middleman.
- One who welds, that is, wields.
- A machine that a human operator uses for welding.
- One who welds, that is, unites pieces of steel, aluminum, or other metals by welding.
- A robotic machine that welds automatically.
- joins pieces of metal by welding them together
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- A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
- a person responsible for hiring workers
- A person in charge of a business or company.
- (geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
- (humorous) One's wife.
- (architecture) A roughly cut stone set in place for later carving.
- (mechanics) A protrusion; frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
- (archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
- A head or reservoir of water.
- A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
- (informal, especially India, MLE and Philippines) A term of address to a man, especially a customer, but also sometimes to a friend or acquaintance of equal standing.
- The head of a political party in a given region or district.
- A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
- (Australia) The male owner or man in charge of a large rural property.
- (video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.
- A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
- (architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
- a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments
- a person who exercises control and makes decisions
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- a person who exercises control over workers
- Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done.
- (slang) An erect penis.
- (firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.
- a rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm
- a rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm
- a harshly demanding overseer
- the foreman of a work gang
- (nautical) A length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.
- A horse that goes quickly.
- (coal mining) One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
- (business, rail transport) One who oversees a gang of workmen.
- (chiefly Scotland) One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- An appointed position in an organization, job.
- a job in an organization
- (film, informal) Post-production.
- (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
- (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- An assigned station; a guard post.
- The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
- (sports) A goalpost.
- A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
- (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
- (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
- (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
- A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
- An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
- A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
- A pole in a battery.
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
- (medicine, informal) A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- military installation at which a body of troops is stationed
- an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
- A message on a social media website
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- the delivery and collection of letters and packages
- To assign to a station; to set; to place.
- (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
- To travel quickly; to hurry.
- (law) To pay bail.
- To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
- To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
- (gambling) To pay (a stake or blind).
- (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
- (UK, Ireland, India, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
- (transitive, by extension) To announce publicly; to publish.
- (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
- To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
- (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
- To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- place so as to be noticed
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- To post a message on a social media website
- ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
- affix in a public place or for public notice
- enter on a public list
- assign to a post; put into a post
- publicize with, or as if with, a poster
- assign to a station
- mark or expose as infamous
- mark with a stake
- display, as of records in sports games
- (historical, mining) The foreman or overman of a mine.
- (historical, Norman term) A reeve, (specifically) the chief officer executing the decisions of any English court in the period following the Norman Conquest or executing the decisions of lower courts in the late medieval and early modern period.
- (historical) An overseer: a supervisor of tenant farmers, serfs, or slaves, usually as part of his role as steward (see above).
- (historical) A steward: the manager of a medieval manor charged with collecting its rents, etc.
- (US) Any law enforcement officer charged with courtroom security and order.
- (UK) A bound bailiff: a deputy bailiff charged with debt collection.
- (UK) A high bailiff: an officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders, appointed by the judge and removable by the Lord Chancellor.
- The High Bailiff of the Isle of Man.
- (historical) An appointee of the French king administering certain districts of northern France in the Middle Ages.
- (historical) A head of a district ("bailiwick") of the Knights Hospitaller; a head of one of the national associations ("tongues") of the Hospitallers' headquarters on Rhodes or Malta.
- The chief justice and president of the legislature on Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
- (UK, slang) Any debt collector, regardless of his or her official status.
- A huissier de justice or other foreign officer of the court acting as either a process server or as courtroom security.
- The title of the mayor of certain English towns.
- (historical) A landvogt in the medieval German states.
- The title of the castellan of certain royal castles in England.
- (historical) Synonym of hundredman: The chief officer of a hundred in medieval England.
- an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
- (mining, historical) The manager of a colliery, who directs its workings and ventilation.
- Someone who watches television.
- (computing) A program that displays the contents of a file.
- (now historical) An appointed inspector or examiner:
- Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.
- Any optical device used to view photographic slides.
- a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
- an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies
- A person who manages or executes the plans and directives of another, more senior person; a manager to their director.
- (military, US) A commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard, Public Health Service, or National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration whose rank is above that of ensign and below lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
- (military, UK) A naval officer whose rank is above that of sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander.
- (military, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A naval commissioned officer who holds the rank above sub-lieutenant and below lieutenant commander.
- The second-in-command (2IC) of a group.
- (military, US) In the US Army, Air Force and Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant" or as the complete forms of the ranks.
- (military, US, navy) A naval officer whose rank is above that of ensign in the United States Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
- (military, UK) A commissioned officer in the British Army and Royal Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant"; however, "second lieutenant" is to specify that the officer is not yet a full lieutenant.
- a commissioned military officer
- an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade
- an officer in a police force
- an assistant with power to act when their superior is absent
- One in the position of controlling or directing; a controller, a director, a guide.
- (Northern England (Cumberland, Westmorland)) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain, especially one associated with a storm.
- (nautical) The member of a vessel's crew in charge of steering the vessel; a helmsman or helmswoman.
- (nautical) The use of a helm (sense 1); also, the amount of space through which a helm is turned.
- (countable) A stalk of corn, or (uncountable) stalks of corn collectively (that is, straw), especially when bundled together or laid out straight to be used for thatching roofs.
- (nautical) The tiller (or, in a large ship, the wheel) which is used to steer the rudder of a marine vessel; also, the entire steering apparatus of a vessel.
- (uncountable) Alternative form of haulm (“the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching”).
- (heraldry) Synonym of helmet (“the feature above a shield on a coat of arms”).
- Something used to control or steer; also (obsolete), a handle of a tool or weapon; a haft, a helve.
- (Northern England) A shelter for cattle or other farm animals; a hemmel, a shed.
- A position of control or leadership.
- steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered
- (figurative) a position of leadership
- (transitive) To lay out (stalks of corn, or straw) straight to be used for thatching roofs; to yelm.
- (figuratively) To direct or lead (a project, etc.); to manage (an organization).
- (nautical) To control the helm (noun sense 1) of (a marine vessel); to be in charge of steering (a vessel).
- be at or take the helm of
- a person responsible for the administration of a business
- someone who manages a government agency or department
- persons who administer the law
- (computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
- The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
- A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
- someone employed to conduct others
- something that offers basic information or instruction
- a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- a model or standard for making comparisons
- someone who shows the way by leading or advising
- Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc.
- Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
- A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
- A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
- (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
- (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
- Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- take somebody somewhere
- be a guiding or motivating force or drive
- use as a guide
- pass over, across, or through
- To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
- To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
- To supervise the education or training of someone.
- To exert control or influence over someone or something.
- (intransitive) To act as a guide.
- someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)
- a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action
- a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country
- Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of (often automated) output.
- (rare, bodybuilding) Clipping of bodybuilder.
- One who builds or constructs things.
- (trading) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
- someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)
- (crosswording, chiefly US) A person who creates crossword puzzles.
- (object-oriented programming) A class method that creates and initializes each instance of an object.
- A person who, or thing that, constructs.
- (automotive) A company which, or individual who, builds racing vehicles. In Formula One, constructor status is strictly defined by the rules, but in other motorsports the term is merely a descriptor. Depending on the racing rules, some constructors (e.g. Cosworth) may provide vehicles to racing teams who are not themselves constructors, while others are both teams and constructors (Ducati Corse, Scuderia Ferrari).
- a job in an organization
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
- An assigned place for a person in (chiefly historical) a horse-drawn coach or other means of transportation, or (military) in a barracks.
- (by extension) A room in a vessel in which the officers or company mess (“eat together”) and reside; also, a room or other place in a vessel for storage.
- (road transport) A place for a vehicle on land to park.
- Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space for manoeuvring or safety.
- A bunk or other bed for sleeping on in a caravan, a train, etc.
- A position on a field of play.
- (by extension) A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the side of a cabin.
- (chiefly nautical, slang) A proper place for a thing.
- A position or seed in a tournament bracket.
- (by extension) A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.
- An appointment, job, or position, especially one regarded as comfortable or good.
- (by extension) A job or position on a vessel.
- come into or dock at a wharf
- provide with a berth
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock
- (by extension) Of a person: to occupy a berth.
- (reflexive, nautical) Of a vessel: to move into a berth.
- (nautical) To bring (a ship or other vessel) into a berth (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1); also, to provide a berth for (a vessel).
- (by extension, chiefly passive voice) To assign (someone) a berth (noun etymology 1 sense 1.3 or etymology 1 sense 2.2) or place to sleep on a vessel, a train, etc.
- (figurative) To provide (someone) with a berth (noun etymology 1 sense 3.1) or appointment, job, or position.
- (specifically, astronautics) To use a device to bring (a spacecraft) into its berth or dock.
- a job in an organization
- place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
- an administrative unit of government
- professional or clerical workers in an office
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
- a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
- (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
- (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
- A position of responsibility.
- (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
- (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
- (Christianity) Last rites.
- (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
- (UK law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office:
- (Protestantism) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
- (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
- (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
- (UK, Australia, usually capitalized, with clarifying modifier) A ministry or other department of government.
- A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
- (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
- A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
- Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
- (figuratively) The staff of such places.
- (chiefly US, medicine) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
- (Catholicism, usually capitalized) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
- (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
- a job in an organization
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- a blank area
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- a public square with room for pedestrians
- proper or appropriate position or location
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- proper or designated social situation
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- the passage that is being read
- any area set aside for a particular purpose
- a particular situation
- where you live at a particular time
- a general vicinity
- an abstract mental location
- A state of mind.
- Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- Any area of the earth: a region.
- The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
- A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader
- An area of the body, especially the skin.
- The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
- A location or position in space.
- An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
- The position as a member of a sports team.
- An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
- (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
- (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- A role or purpose; a station.
- The position of a contestant in a competition.
- (horse racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
- make an investment
- assign a location to
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
- assign to a station
- finish second or better in a horse or dog race
- identify the location or place of
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- assign a rank or rating to
- locate
- sing a note with the correct pitch
- to arrange for
- assign to (a job or a home)
- estimate
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- place somebody in a particular situation or location
- (transitive, in collocations) To make.
- (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- (transitive) To bet.
- (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
- (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
- (transitive) To vouch for someone's alibi.
- (ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
- (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
- (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- (transitive) To assign (more or less value) to something.
- a job in an organization
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a rationalized mental attitude
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A posture.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
- a job in an organization
- a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
- physical position in relation to the surroundings
- (slang) An outfit, garment, or look.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- (US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- (UK) A position of employment; a post.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
- A manager; an actual occupant; a land-tenant holding under the farmer or middleman.
- One who welds, that is, wields.
- A machine that a human operator uses for welding.
- One who welds, that is, unites pieces of steel, aluminum, or other metals by welding.
- A robotic machine that welds automatically.
- joins pieces of metal by welding them together
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