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verb
- To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
noun
- The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
- A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
noun
- The belief that change ought to be brought about in small, discrete increments rather than in abrupt strokes such as revolutions or uprisings.
- The belief that evolution proceeds at a steady pace, without the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.
- The belief that some phenomenon occurs gradually over a long period of time.
noun
- The point at which a slow, reversible change becomes irreversible, often with dramatic consequences.
- A point in time when a group rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice.
- The point in time at which some new technology becomes mainstream.
- An irreversible change in the climate system.
noun
- A change that results in something being not being moved far enough or too few things being moved.
- The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's weak side.
- A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.
- An underhang caused by seismic shift.
- An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
- The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too close together.
verb
noun
- A change that results in something being moved too far or too many things being moved.
- A work period that extends significantly beyond the normal eight-hour shift; An instance of involuntary overtime.
- An unfitted woman's overgarment.
- A misalignment resulting from shifting gears too far.
- An overhang caused by seismic shift.
- The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's strong side, leaving portions of the field or court undefended.
- The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too far apart for molecular bonding.
verb
- To replant or repot too soon or too often.
- To raise the price to consumers by more than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
- To overshoot when changing gears.
- To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
- To move too great an amount or move something too far.
noun
- Slow, cumulative change.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
- In New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to be sold.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Anything driven at random.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
verb
- To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- To move haphazardly without any destination.
- To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- To drive into heaps.
- To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
noun
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noun
- The tendency to pursue an alternative, especially when the previous solution is less available or less desirable.
- A characteristic of something having alternative connotations, akin to the representation of choice between two or more possibilities.
- A term of magma used to describe identifiable properties in an algebraic structure.
noun
- An instance of such change.
- Change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories.
- Diffraction.
- Any form produced by such an instance of a change, such as the principal parts for any given stem: any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
- An affix representing such an instance.
- A turning away from a straight course.
- A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
- A change in pitch or tone of voice.
verb
- To undergo a storyline development which heralds a fundamental and generally disappointing change in direction.
- 2003, Jon Hein, Jump the Shark, book overview (revised edition; Plume; →ISBN, 9780452284104)
- 2004, Ronn Owens, Voice of Reason: Why the Left and Right Are Wrong, John Wiley & Sons, published 2004, →ISBN, page 212
- From that point on, Dallas was never the same. It hit its peak. It lost credibility. It jumped the shark.
- 2010, Michael Hewitt, "The Watcher: Which new TV shows will take off?", Orange County Register, 16 September 2010
- To experience a decline in quality, appeal, popularity, etc.
adj
- Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
- Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
- Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
- Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
- Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
- Infinitesimally small.
- Unable to be split or made any smaller.
noun
adj
- Of a change, sudden or discrete, without intermediate stages.
- Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.
- Relating to a quantum computer.
- Of a change, significant.
noun
- The total amount of something; quantity.
- The amount or quantity observably present, or available.
- The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection.
- The length or magnitude of the sentence handed down to someone who has been found guilty of a crime.
- The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment.
- The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon.
- The amount of compensation awarded to a successful party in a lawsuit.
- A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.
verb
- To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
- To move quickly from one location to another.
- To move about rapidly and nimbly.
- To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
- To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
- To move a tethered animal to a new, grazing location.
noun
verb
- To vary or shift suddenly.
- To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To remove the final character from (a text string).
- To interrupt; with in or out.
- to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- To stab.
- To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- To seal a license or passport.
- To chap or crack.
noun
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A complete shipment.
- A license or passport that has been sealed.
- The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
- A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A woodchopping competition.
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A jaw of an animal.
- An IRC channel operator.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
noun
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- A dance style.
- In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
verb
- To fluctuate or change.
- To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- To move sideways in its trajectory.
- To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- To turn in a different direction.
- To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- To ride on a swing.
- To dance.
- (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
- To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
verb
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
noun
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
- A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
- A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
noun
- A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
- The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
- An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
- An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
- The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
- The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
- The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
verb
- To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
- To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
- To shapeshift.
noun
- An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
- A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.
- A recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds representing an indivisible morphological form; especially as representing a morpheme.
- A variety of a species, distinguishable from other individuals of the species by morphology or behaviour.
- morphine
noun
- A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
- A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
- Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.
- The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
- A flow, repetition or regularity.
- The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
- A person's natural feeling for rhythm.
- The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
noun
- A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
- The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.
- The extraction of a root from a given power.
- Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
- A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
- A turning movement, especially of the body.
- The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
- The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
noun
- the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard
- an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
- an activity that varies from a norm or standard
- a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
- something a little different from others of the same type
- an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard
- the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north
- the process of varying or being varied
- (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
verb
- To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- To place out of line.
noun
- A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- away from or off from the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film‘s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed or from those places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- A terrace on a hillside.
- The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
noun
- An abrupt, last-minute change in one's professed beliefs, principles, or point of view in order to escape a serious threat or to increase one's chances of success.
- Acceptance of religious belief immediately before one dies, typically in a state of anxiety or fear of the insecurity of what will happen to one in and after death.
noun
- Something unexpected and often unpleasant which makes one take stock or reconsider something; a sudden change or turn of events.
- A chilly or unenthusiastic reaction to something or someone.
- A shower taken by a person in cold water; as taken for therapeutic reasons, or suggested as a remedy to calm sexual excitement.
noun
- The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration
- The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim
- The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
- The action of adjusting something
- The settling or balancing of a financial account
verb
- To change drastically in a fundamental way, often for the better; to change to the opposite (opinion or position).
- To consider from a different viewpoint.
- (often with a unit of time) To produce; to output; to generate.
- To suddenly change or reverse one's opinion, point of view, stated position, behaviour, etc.
- To reverse an expected outcome (of a game, etc.), usually from a losing outcome to a winning one; to return (a business, department, etc.) to effectiveness, profitability, etc.
- To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount.
- To convert (an agent) to work for one's own side.
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