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apperception
heel turn
obscuration
rise
vanish
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dodge
recede
noun
- the act of becoming more distant
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
- a small concavity
- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
- the act of ceding back
noun
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- 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
- 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
verb
- to change orientation or direction
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- 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
adj
- Far; distant.
- Indirect; oblique; incidental.
- Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
adv
noun
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- A sports team.
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- One set of competitors in a game.
- A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- A line of descent traced through a particular parent, as distinguished from that traced through another.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
- Sidespin; english
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
verb
noun
- The process of becoming different.
- A change-up pitch.
- An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
- Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
- Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
- A transfer between vehicles.
- Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
- A replacement.
verb
noun
- The act of turning to face in the other direction.
- A series of sketches of a character as seen from different angles.
- A turnabout; a reversal of circumstances.
- A cadence linking the end of a verse to the beginning of the next.
- Synonym of goback
- The time required to carry out a task.
- The notation for the addition of a grace note above then below a given note.
- The scheduled shutdown of an industrial plant, such as an oil rig, for maintenance and testing.
- A contractual provision by which, if the studio elects to abandon a film project, the producer has a limited period in which to sell it elsewhere.
- Preparations for takeoff, such as loading and servicing.
- A reversal of policy.
noun
- An act of wandering off or going astray.
- An area of common land for use by domestic animals generally.
- Any domestic animal that has no enclosure nor proper place and company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
- An instance of atmospheric interference.
- One who is lost, literally or figuratively.
verb
- To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
- To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
- To cause to stray; lead astray.
- To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
adj
noun
- The act of going past or around.
- An electrical shunt.
- A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
- An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
- A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
verb
adj
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
noun
- 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.
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- 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.
noun
verb
adj
- Of or relating to distance.
- Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
- Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
verb
noun
- A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
- A metric tensor.
- A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": d(x,y)>0, (2) "identity of indiscernibles": d(x,y)=0 mbox iffx=y, (3) "symmetry": d(x,y)=d(y,x), and (4) "triangle inequality": d(x,y)<d(x,z)+d(z,y).
noun
noun
- A sudden backward motion.
- A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
- The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
- The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
verb
adj
- Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.
- Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.
- Inside or closer to the inside of the body.
- Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence.
- Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup.
- Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure; innermost or essential; needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood.
noun
verb
- To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
- To avoid; to sidestep.
noun
- An act of dodging.
- A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
- A line of work.
adj
noun
- approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap
- a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
- a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the act of blocking
- termination of operations
verb
noun
noun
- the act of drawing spatially closer to something
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- a way of entering or leaving
- the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
- the event of one object coming closer to another
- a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
- a close approximation
- a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
verb
noun
- The period of someone being away.
- A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
- Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
- Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.
- Lack of contact between blades.
- Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
- Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
noun
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- an area where you can be alone
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
verb
noun
- The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.
- The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself.
- Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
noun
- An act of turning around abruptly, especially so that one faces the opposite direction.
- A turn executed by shifting weight on to the heel(s).
- A ballroom dancing move in which the dancer steps backwards, shifts their weight on to the back foot, and turns on the heel of that foot while holding the other foot close and parallel to it.
- A situation in which someone changes from being a villain into a hero.
- A radical change (of mind, opinion, etc.).
- Synonym of heel/face turn (“a situation in which a wrestler previously identified as a villain changes to being considered a hero”)
adj
- Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- That will happen at some time; eventual.
- Final; last in a series.
- Last in a word or other utterance.
- Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
- Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
noun
noun
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- The height of an arch or a step.
verb
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- To attain a higher status.
- To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To have its source (in a particular place).
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To develop.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- To be resurrected.
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- To slope upward.
- To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To move upwards.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To cause to go up or ascend.
adj
- of a seeker; far from the object sought
- having lost freshness through passage of time
- (color) giving no sensation of warmth
- marked by errorless familiarity
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
- sexually unresponsive
- without compunction or human feeling
- feeling or showing no enthusiasm
- unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
- lacking the warmth of life
adj
- having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
- extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
noun
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