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noun
- The source or origin of something.
- A surrogate parent
- An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- A parent company.
- One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
- The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
- The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
- A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material
- Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
verb
noun
- A source or origin.
- A female parent, sometimes especially a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
- A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
- The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
- A striking example.
- Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
- Motherfucker.
- The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
- A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
- A pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
- A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
- A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
- A female ancestor.
- Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
- Any person or entity which performs mothering.
verb
prep
- From a thing or or place as a source, place of origin etc.
- So as no longer to be in a given condition or state.
- Taken from among; expressing a fraction of (a larger number).
- Born from a given mother (cf. by).
- Not within a given space, area etc.
- From the inside to the outside of.
- Stating the port in which a boat has been registered.
- Not in (a given state, condition).
- Without; no longer in possession of.
- From a given cause or motivation.
- From a given material as means of construction.
- In.
noun
noun
- Place or source of origin.
- Background; history; place of origin
- The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
- The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
- The history of ownership of a work of art
- The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
verb
verb
noun
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- a facility where something is available
- a person who supplies information
- (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
- anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
noun
- The primary source; origin.
- The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- A sexual partner.
- The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- A zero (of an equation).
- The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- A root vegetable.
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- A penis, especially the base of a penis.
verb
- To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- To sexually penetrate.
- To get root or privileged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To turn up or dig with the snout.
- Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- To root out; to abolish.
- To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
noun
verb
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically
- To take an academic degree.
- To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To begin and carry on a legal process.
noun
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- A puddler's stirrer.
verb
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- properties attributable to your ancestry
- an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
suffix
suffix
noun
- A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- A language that is descended from another.
- A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- A later evolutionary type.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
adj
noun
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
noun
noun
- Something derived.
- A financial instrument whose value depends on the valuation of an underlying asset; such as a warrant, an option etc.
- A word that derives from another one.
- The value of such a derived function for a given value of its independent variable: the rate of change of a function at a point in its domain.
- The linear operator that maps functions to their derived functions, usually written D; the simplest differential operator.
- Any of several related generalizations of the derivative: the directional derivative, partial derivative, Fréchet derivative, functional derivative, etc.
- A chemical derived from another.
- The derived function of f(x): the function giving the instantaneous rate of change of f; equivalently, the function giving the slope of the line tangent to the graph of f. Written f'(x) or (df)/(dx) in Leibniz's notation, ̇f(x) in Newton's notation (the latter used particularly when the independent variable is time).
adj
- Having a value that depends on an underlying asset of variable value.
- Lacking originality.
- Imitative of the work of someone else.
- Obtained by derivation; not radical, original, or fundamental.
- Referring to a work, such as a translation or adaptation, based on another work that may be subject to copyright restrictions.
noun
- A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
- A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
- A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
- A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
- Bernoulli's Principle
- An original faculty or endowment.
- A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
- Moral rule or aspect.
verb
adj
- Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
- Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
- Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
- Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
- Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
- Belonging to one by birth.
- Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
- Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
- Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
noun
- A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
- A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
- Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.
- A native speaker.
verb
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- To descend in a family line.
- To remove the stem from.
noun
- A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.
- A branch of a family.
- A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- The penis.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- A person's leg.
- The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- A vertical stroke of a letter.
- A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
noun
- That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
- The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
- The initial portion of some extended thing.
- That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
adj
verb
- To have its source (in a particular place).
- 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.
- 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.
noun
- 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.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The height of an arch or a step.
adj
noun
noun
- Anything derived from or caused by something.
- A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
- One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
- The thirteenth Lenormand card.
- A kid aged 1 to 11 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 month to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 12 years to 18 years.
- A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
- A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
- A subordinate node of a tree.
noun
- The underlying reality or substance of something.
- The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
- A relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality.
- The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’).
- Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
- A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.
- Referring to the hypostatic model of personality; i.e., asserting that humans present themselves in many different aspects or hypostases, depending on the internal and external realities they relate to, including different approaches to the study of personality.
prep
- Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- 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
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).
- 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.
- 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).}}
noun
- The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
- A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
- Infancy, or very early life.
- A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
- A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
- A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
- A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
- A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
- A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
- A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
- A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
- A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
- A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
- An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
- A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
verb
- To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
- To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
- To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
- To rock (a baby to sleep).
- To contain in or as if in a cradle.
- To nurse or train in infancy.
- To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
- To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
- To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
adj
- derived from or composed of matter
- directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
- having material or physical form or substance
- having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
noun
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- things needed for doing or making something
- a person judged suitable for admission or employment
adj
prep
- Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
- Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
- Indicating a starting point in time.
- Used to indicate source or provenance.
- With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
- Indicating removal or separation.
- Indicating exclusion.
- Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
- Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
- Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
- Denoting a subtraction operation.
- Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
- Indicating differentiation.
- Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being
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