alphabet
compound
rudimentally
microplex
fictional
primitive
reductionism
shopping list
stuff
micrology
makeup
slumgullion
ultimate
item set
family grouping
bare bones
microcomponent
matchstick
pro-
element
bijouterie
and the like
dance card
make up
catena
bits and pieces
quintessence
a few
sample
aparithmesis
haplo-
gist
elementarism
constellation
miscellanea
whatnottery
configuration
diverse
doddle
fistful
atom
flotsam and jetsam
crude
daedalia
least
domain
heterogenous
decomplication
heterogeneous
molarize
paraphernal
medley
straightforward
uncomplication
microcollection
accidence
ultraminimalist
basic
trivialism
down to
canonical
piece of piss
canonic
porcelaneous
finely
jot and tittle
particular
catalogue
item
aggregate
plereme
detail
substantive
heterogeneity
au naturel
comprise
grab bag
fraction
junk
granule
concentrate
bite-sized
guts
bits and bats
battery
little black dress
grain
scheme
shred
texture
pepper
odds and sods
bare necessities
set
whipstitch
agenda item
smallscale
miscellany
compound
fictional
diverse
crude
heterogenous
heterogeneous
paraphernal
straightforward
ultraminimalist
basic
canonical
canonic
porcelaneous
aggregate
substantive
bite-sized
smallscale
rudimentally
finely
au naturel
alphabet
microplex
primitive
reductionism
shopping list
stuff
micrology
makeup
slumgullion
ultimate
item set
family grouping
bare bones
microcomponent
matchstick
element
bijouterie
dance card
catena
bits and pieces
quintessence
sample
aparithmesis
elementarism
constellation
miscellanea
whatnottery
configuration
doddle
fistful
atom
flotsam and jetsam
daedalia
domain
decomplication
medley
uncomplication
microcollection
accidence
trivialism
piece of piss
jot and tittle
particular
catalogue
item
plereme
detail
heterogeneity
grab bag
fraction
junk
granule
concentrate
guts
bits and bats
battery
little black dress
grain
scheme
shred
texture
odds and sods
bare necessities
set
whipstitch
agenda item
miscellany
make up
gist
molarize
comprise
pepper
noun
- The simplest rudiments; elements.
- The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
- A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
- A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
- A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
- An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
verb
adj
- Composed of elements; not simple.
- An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
- Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
verb
- To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
- To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
- To worsen a situation.
- To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
- Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
- To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.
- To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
noun
- A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
- An enclosure for secure storage.
- An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
- A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or an affix, e.g. bookshop, high school or non-standard.
- A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
- Anything made by combining several things.
- A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
- A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.
noun
- Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
- An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
- A simple-minded person.
- A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
- A member of a primitive society.
- A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
adj
- Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
- Crude, obsolete.
- Not derived from another of the same type
- Original; primary; radical; not derived.
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
noun
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- informal terms for personal possessions
- senseless talk
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- information in some unspecified form
- a critically important or characteristic component
verb
noun
- The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
- The greatest extremity; the maximum
- The final or most distant point; the conclusion
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
- A group of related items.
- A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage.
- The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together.
- The system of grouping children of differing ages together, used primarily at the preschool level.
- A taxonomic grouping at the family level.
- The strategy of putting related inventory items together.
- A group of family members who are posed together.
noun
- One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- A small part of the whole.
- A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
- Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
- An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
- One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
- A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
- The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
- One of the objects in a set.
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
- One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
- Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
- A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
- An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
- The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
- A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to.
- One of the entries of a matrix.
verb
- To put together (a substance, material, garment, medicine, etc.) into a specific form; to assemble.
- To constitute the components of a whole.
- To draw near to, approach to.
- To apply cosmetics.
- To compensate (for).
- To make peace, to settle a dispute.
- To resolve or settle an argument, dispute, conflict, or fight (e.g., with someone).
- To make social or romantic advances to; to pay court to.
- To invent, to imagine, to concoct
- To constitute, to compose.
- To prepare (someone) for a theatrical performance by means of costume, cosmetics, etc.
- To compensate for (a deficiency, defect, etc.); to supply (something missing).
- To invent or fabricate (a story, claim, etc.).
- To apply cosmetics or makeup to (a face, facial feature).
- To compile or draw up (a list, document, etc.).
adj
- Consisting of many different elements; various.
- Capable of various forms; multiform.
- Composed of people with a variety of different demographic characteristics in terms of, for example, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, etc., and having a sizeable representation of people that are minorities in a given area.
- Belonging to a minority group.
- Different; dissimilar; distinct; not the same
adv
noun
noun
- A collection of miscellaneous items or fragments of little importance.
- That which has been discharged from a ship or boat, especially on the ocean or a sea, (flotsam unintentionally and jetsam intentionally).
- The remains of a shipwreck still floating in the water.
- People considered to be of little worth.
det
adv
- Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est.
- In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others.
prep_phrase
- At least.
- What a stupid white privileged POS I am! Least I call myself out.
- 2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 79
noun
noun
- A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
- A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.
- The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
- A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
- A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
- The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
- The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
- A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.
- A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome
- A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
- An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
- Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
- A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.
- A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
- The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
- Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
noun
noun
adj
adj
noun
- A complete (usually alphabetical) list of items.
- A systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc.
- A retailer's magazine detailing the products they sell, allowing the reader to order them for delivery.
- A book printed periodically by a college, university, or other institution that gives a definitive description of the institution, its history, courses and degrees offered, etc.
- A complete list of a recording artist's or a composer's songs.
- A series of unwelcome or unpleasant things, often similar.
- A list of all the publications in a library.
verb
noun
- a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
adv
adj
- Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
- Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
- Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
- Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
- Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
- United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
noun
- A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
- A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.
- Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
- A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
- Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
- Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements; especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
- The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
- The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.
verb
adj
- of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- Depending on itself; independent.
- of a dye that does not need the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed
verb
noun
noun
- A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
- A Chinese sailing vessel.
- The genitalia, especially of a male.
- Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
- Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
- Salt beef.
- Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
verb
noun
noun
- a collection of related things intended for use together
- group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
- a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
- a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
- a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
noun
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a cereal grass
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
verb
noun
- An orderly combination of related parts.
- A council housing estate.
- A systematic plan of future action.
- A plot or secret, devious plan.
- A mathematical structure that enlarges the notion of algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring (e.g. Fermat curves over the integers).
- A chart or diagram of a system or object.
- Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
- A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
- A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
verb
noun
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
- A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
verb
- To become separated into small portions.
- To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast.
- To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
adj
noun
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the feel of a surface or a fabric
- the essential quality of something
- the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
- the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality
verb
- To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
- To beat or thrash.
- To strike with something made up of small particles.
- To add (something) at frequent intervals.
- To add pepper to.
noun
- A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
- A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
- A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
- A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
- A beating; a thrashing.
noun
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
verb
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
adj
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