possessivity
possessiveness
ktetic
possessively
one another's
overpossessive
possessival
possessive
second-person dual
proprietorial
men's
thing
women's
of
gents'
gentlemen's
ladies'
propriety
-ous
ownself
own
ain
stuff
’
owndom
clingy
having
one
canoodling
motherliness
maternalism
possessed
amasius
maternity
fruition
maternal quality
protectiveness
hand
embrace
bosom
ours
double possessive
home
possessive pronoun
both of ours
possess
have
virility
proprietive
lookout
patronal
proprietary
reflexive possessive pronoun
smittenness
lovingness
taste
second-person plural
the
possessive adjective
Romeo
theirs
hir
request
hu
possessionary
panphiliac
mollycoddle
plushiness
loverlike
wean
lovesomeness
fond
playmate
endearment
expectancy
hers
sonliness
aught
loveable
Saxon genitive
attractive
love
dateability
on
predilection
pers
crush
up
caded
loverly
devotion
lovable
possessional
ktetic
overpossessive
possessival
proprietorial
own
ain
clingy
possessed
proprietive
patronal
proprietary
possessionary
loverlike
fond
loveable
attractive
caded
loverly
lovable
possessional
possessively
up
possessivity
possessiveness
ktetic
possessive
second-person dual
men's
thing
women's
gents'
gentlemen's
ladies'
propriety
stuff
owndom
having
canoodling
motherliness
maternalism
amasius
maternity
fruition
maternal quality
protectiveness
hand
embrace
bosom
double possessive
home
possessive pronoun
virility
lookout
reflexive possessive pronoun
smittenness
lovingness
taste
second-person plural
possessive adjective
Romeo
request
panphiliac
mollycoddle
plushiness
lovesomeness
playmate
endearment
expectancy
sonliness
Saxon genitive
love
dateability
predilection
crush
devotion
own
possess
have
wean
aught
noun
- That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.)
- One's typical routine, habits, or manner. (Used in possessive constructions.)
- A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
- A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- Corporeal object.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- A romantic relationship.
- Alternate form of ting.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
- A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- A living being or creature.
- A penis.
- Whatever can be owned.
- Girl; attractive woman.
- Clothes, possessions or equipment.
- That which matters; the crux.
- A romantic couple.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
verb
prep
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).
- Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
- Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
- Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
- Often used without the hour
- Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
- Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
- Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
- Indicates a given part.
- Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
- Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
- Used to indicate the material or substance used.
- Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.}}
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
- Denotes the number of minutes before the hour;Before (the hour); to.
- During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
- From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
- Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
- Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
- Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
- Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
- Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
- Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
- Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
- Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
- Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
- Forming the "objective genitive".
- Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
- Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
- Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
- Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
- Introduces its subject matter.
- For (a given length of time).
- Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).}}
suffix
- possession of
- presence of a quality in any degree (typically abundance of)
- relation or pertinence to
- Used in chemical nomenclature to name chemical compounds in which a specified chemical element has a lower oxidation number than in the equivalent compound whose name ends in the suffix -ic. For example sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) has more oxygen atoms per molecule than sulphurous acid (H₂SO₃). See Inorganic nomenclature.
noun
- Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
- Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- Unspecified things or matters.
- A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
verb
- To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- To fill with seasoning.
- To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- To break; to destroy.
- To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- To sate.
- To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- To sexually penetrate.
- To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
pron
- Used as a noun substituent following a possessive determiner.
- The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
- Functions as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
- Any person (applying to people in general).
- One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
- Any person, entity or thing.
adj
- Whole, entire.
- Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
- The same.
- In agreement.
- Being a preeminent example.
- Sole, only.
- Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
- Of a period of time, being particular.
noun
- One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
- A joke or amusing anecdote.
- A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
- A one-dollar bill.
- Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
- The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
- One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- The digit or figure 1.
particle
- Used to emphasize or explain something, with an implied antecedent.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
- A nominalizer; used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
verb
num
noun
- Personal possession; ownership.
- A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
- Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
- Management, domain, control.
- Applause.
- A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
- The set of cards held by a player.
- That which has the appearance of, a human hand.
- Four inches, a hand's breadth.
- A whole rhizome of ginger.
- Handwriting; style of penmanship.
- An instance of helping.
- A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
- A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
- The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
- Promise, word; especially of a betrothal.
- The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
- An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
- An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
- The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
- A round of a card game.
- A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
- A bunch of bananas.
- A person's autograph or signature.
- A performer more or less skilful.
verb
noun
- a close affectionate and protective acceptance
- the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept
- a person's breast or chest
- cloth that covers the chest or breasts
- the locus of feelings and intuitions
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
verb
noun
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- Home plate.
- The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
adj
- Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign
- Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
adv
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
- into the goal
- To the home page
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length
- To one's place of birth
- into the right, proper or stowed position
verb
verb
- have ownership or possession of
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- have as a feature
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- have a personal or business relationship with someone
- organize or be responsible for
- have left
- be confronted with
- undergo
- suffer from; be ill with
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- receive willingly something given or offered
- get something; come into possession of
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- achieve a point or goal
- cause to be born
- have sex with; archaic use
noun
noun
- One's perspective, outlook; hence, one's responsibility. (used with a possessive pronoun or a noun in a possessive form).
- A session of watching for an approaching enemy, police, etc.
- A person on watch for approaching enemy, police, danger, etc.
- A vantage point with a view of the surrounding area.
- A joist that extends in cantilever out from the exterior wall (or wall plate) of a building, supporting the roof sheathing and providing a nailing surface for the fascia boards.
- An observation window.
- A subject for observation; a prospect or view.
adj
- Owning something; having ownership.
- Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
- Of or relating to property or ownership.
- Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
- Privately owned.
- Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
noun
noun
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
verb
noun
- The possessive adjectives your (addressing a plural audience), y'all's, you guys', etc., or their equivalents in other languages.
- The form of a verb used with the pronouns you (plural), y'all, you guys, etc., or their equivalents in other languages.
- The pronouns you (plural), y'all, you guys, youse, yinz, etc., or their equivalents in other languages.
article
- Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
- Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
- Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
- Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
- Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
- When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
- Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it hints at is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already completely specified.
- Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
- Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
- Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
prep
adv
noun
pron
- their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.
- them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.
- they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
noun
- a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
- any object of warm affection or devotion
- a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction
- a score of zero in tennis or squash
- sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people
verb
prep
- In the possession of.
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- So as to impact; against.
- Some time during the day of.
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- Inside (a vehicle) for the purpose of travelling.
- Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- Expressing figurative placement or attachment.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
- Having identical domain and codomain.
- At or in (a certain region or location).
- Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
- Under the influence of (a drug).
- Generated by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Against; in opposition to.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Covering.
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Paid for by.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At the date of.
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- Because of, or due to.
- Near; adjacent to; alongside.
- Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
- Without.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- So as to impart force to.
- Serving as a member of.
- At a given time after the start of something; at.
adv
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action).
- To an operating state.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
noun
verb
adj
- Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
- Acting in character.
- Fitted; covering; being worn.
- Acceptable, appropriate.
- Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- Menstruating.
- Performing according to schedule; taking place.
noun
- The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- A group or gang.
- A crowd control barrier.
- The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- A violent crowding.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
verb
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
adv
- To or from one's possession or consideration.
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- In a positive vertical direction.
- North.
- Against the wind or current.
- To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- Without additional ice.
- Relatively close to the batsman.
noun
- The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
- An up quark.
- An upstairs room of a two story house.
- A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
verb
- To upload.
- To physically raise or lift.
- To increase the level or amount of.
- To promote.
- To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
prep
- From south to north of.
- At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- Of a man: having sex with.
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- Toward the top of.
adj
- Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Traveling towards a major terminus.
- At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
- Aloft.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Functional; working.
- Raised; lifted.
- Above the horizon, in the sky.
- well-known; renowned
- Awake and out of bed.
- Willing; ready.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Finished, to an end
- On or at a physically higher level.
- Chilled and served without ice.
- Erect.
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Facing upwards.
- Well-informed; current.
- In a good mood.
- Built, constructed.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- Riding the horse; mounted.
- Standing; upright.
- Next in a sequence.
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