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take
rank
fautorship
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role
displace
posture
roleplayer
room
replacement
substitute
man
switch
switching
better
best
shift
supersession
assume
supersedure
supersede
-man
supplant
replace
one's own boss
supervene upon
by right of office
ex officio
fill someone's shoes
usurp
presiding
sideline
occasional
repositioning
active
high status
lay something at the feet of
assuaging
agent
Electorship
at the hands of
executorship
personality
high ground
designated hitter
incumbency
placing
underling
tenure
assigneeship
term of office
behalf
chair
deputize
vice
esquireship
turn
king of the castle
retainer
ascendent
backseat
ascendant
repositioner
on time
punctual
change state
angular position
constituter
step in
handmaid
on one's watch
control
handmaiden
thirtieth
rulership
servant
lay
alternate
second fiddle
proxy
authoritative
standing
adjuncthood
higher-up
dominance
presiding
occasional
active
ex officio
on time
punctual
vice
authoritative
standing
better
best
by right of office
ex officio
on one's watch
stead
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acceptee
fautorship
role
posture
roleplayer
room
replacement
substitute
switch
switching
shift
supersession
supersedure
repositioning
high status
assuaging
agent
Electorship
executorship
personality
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incumbency
placing
underling
tenure
assigneeship
term of office
behalf
chair
vice
esquireship
king of the castle
retainer
ascendent
backseat
ascendant
repositioner
angular position
man
constituter
handmaid
control
handmaiden
thirtieth
rulership
servant
alternate
second fiddle
proxy
adjuncthood
higher-up
dominance
occupy
fill
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rank
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displace
man
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supersede
supplant
replace
supervene upon
fill someone's shoes
usurp
sideline
lay something at the feet of
deputize
turn
change state
step in
lay
noun
- A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
- A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
- Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
- An ersatz good.
- A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
- A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
- A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
verb
adj
noun
- A position to which someone is assigned.
- A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- A document that effects this transfer.
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- An assigned task.
- The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
- An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
- A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
verb
- assume, as of positions or roles
- carry out
- require (time or space)
- take somebody somewhere
- get into one's hands, take physically
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- take into one's possession
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- receive willingly something given or offered
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- require as useful, just, or proper
- experience or feel or submit to
- make a film or photograph of something
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- conquer by force
- occupy or take on
- admit into a group or community
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- be a student of a certain subject
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- head into a specified direction
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- engage for service under a term of contract
- receive or obtain regularly
- buy, select
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- have sex with; archaic use
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- be designed to hold or take
- be capable of holding or containing
- develop a habit
- proceed along in a vehicle
- obtain by winning
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
noun
verb
- take or have a position relative to others
- assign a rank or rating to
- take precedence or surpass others in rank
adj
- very fertile; producing profuse growth
- very offensive in smell or taste
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- growing profusely
noun
noun
- The function or position of something.
- Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes
- In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
- The function of a word in a phrase.
- An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.
- A character or part played by a performer or actor.
- The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
noun
- Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- The people in a room.
- A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
- Sufficient space for or to do something.
- A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- An area for working in a coal mine.
- A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- An IRC or chat room.
- (One's) bedroom.
adv
verb
noun
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- someone who takes the place of another person
- the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- filling again by supplying what has been used up
- a person who follows next in order
verb
noun
- an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
- someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
- the generic use of the word to refer to any human being
- any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
- a male subordinate
- an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
- a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
verb
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- make a shift in or exchange of
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
adv
- from a position of superiority or authority
- comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.
verb
adj
- (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable
- more than half
noun
- something superior in quality or condition or effect
- someone who bets
- a superior person having claim to precedence
- the superior one of two alternatives
adj
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a qualitative change
- the time period during which you are at work
- the act of moving from one place to another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
verb
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change place or direction
- move around
- move very slightly
- move from one setting or context to another
- change in quality
- move and exchange for another
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- move abruptly
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- change gears
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
suffix
- Someone (possibly implied male) who is employed or holds a position in an area.
- Someone (possibly implied male) who is an expert in an area or who takes part in an activity.
- A ship which has special characteristics relating to a trade or area.
- Someone (possibly implied male) who has a particular nationality.
- Someone (possibly implied male) who has special characteristics relating to a topic or area.
adj
- Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.
- Brisk; lively.
- Applied to a form of the verb; — opposed to passive. See active voice.
- Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
- (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than being penetrated by his partner.
- Requiring or implying action or exertion
- Not passive.
- Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative
- Eligible to be processed by a compiler or interpreter.
- Emitting hot materials, such as lava, smoke, or steam, or producing tremors.
- Implying or producing rapid action.
- Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy
- Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.
- Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.
- In action; actually proceeding; working; in force
noun
noun
- One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to do the business of another
- One who exerts power, or has the power to act
- An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect
- The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
- Someone who works for an intelligence agency
- A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.
- In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
- A person who looks for work for another person
noun
- An assumed role or manner of behavior.
- Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks.
- That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons
- A celebrity, especially one with a strong media presence.
- A set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.
- A set of qualities that make something distinctive or interesting.
- Charisma, or qualities that make a person stand out from the crowd.
noun
- The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
- One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
- An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
- A distinguished professorship at a university.
- An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
- The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
verb
noun
- One who acts in place of a superior.
- A winding or spiral staircase.
- A bad habit.
- A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
- Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
- A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
adj
verb
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- to change orientation or direction
- undergo a change or development
- cause to move around or rotate
- change to the contrary
- pass to the other side of
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- move around an axis or a center
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- to send or let go
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- change color
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- accomplish by rotating
- get by buying and selling
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- alter the functioning or setting of
- direct at someone
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- go sour or spoil
- become officially one year older
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- an unforeseen development
- a movement in a new direction
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
noun
- Influence or authority over something.
- A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box (abbreviated Ctrl).
- A control group or control experiment.
- A checkpoint along an audax route.
- A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
- The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
- Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
- A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
- A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
- A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
- Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
verb
noun
- An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
- A proximity mine; a mine that explodes when something approaches within a certain distance.
- The authority to act for another, especially when written.
- A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another
- The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts
- An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.
verb
- To serve as a proxy for.
- To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.
adj
adj
- executed in or initiated from a standing position
- (of fluids) not moving or flowing
- (of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs
noun
- social or financial or professional status or reputation
- an ordered listing of scores or results showing the relative positions of competitors (individuals or teams) in a sporting event
- the act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position
adj
noun
- Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
- The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
- The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
- The property of a gene such that it suppresses the expression of its allele.
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