write one's own ticket
go for
draft
adopt
choose
self-elect
tap up
look out for number one
self-select
punch someone's ticket
choice
free will
feel up to
self-selection
habilitate
set on
buckle down
opportunist
put one's mind to it
self-motivated
self-assertive
play into someone's hands
dial in
be out for
reserve
go
govern
take to heart
know one's own mind
do one's darnedest
selective
designation
owe it to oneself
put on
do one's damnedest
steer
mean
turn one's hand to
purchase
bulldog
vamachara
empowered
road
apply
picking
see one's way clear to
set
bull
opter
monkey-branch
paddle one's own canoe
draw
procott
settle on
ipsative
rainmaker
intrapreneurially
pick
qualify
cup of tea
seize upon
cocker up
choosing
walk
pick on
decisory
mark
self-reflect
selection
accede
find oneself
motivate
find one's place
handle oneself
aspiringly
husband
do the decent thing
assume the mantle
selectability
initiative
chase down
election
find
inform
assumption
appropriate
have
play the angles
answer
self-actualize
take a leaf out of someone's book
professionalize
professionalise
self-motivated
self-assertive
selective
empowered
ipsative
decisory
self-elect
intrapreneurially
aspiringly
choice
free will
self-selection
opportunist
designation
vamachara
road
picking
opter
rainmaker
cup of tea
choosing
selection
selectability
initiative
election
assumption
write one's own ticket
go for
draft
adopt
choose
self-elect
tap up
look out for number one
self-select
punch someone's ticket
feel up to
habilitate
set on
buckle down
put one's mind to it
play into someone's hands
dial in
be out for
reserve
go
govern
take to heart
know one's own mind
do one's darnedest
owe it to oneself
put on
do one's damnedest
steer
mean
turn one's hand to
purchase
bulldog
apply
see one's way clear to
set
bull
monkey-branch
paddle one's own canoe
draw
procott
settle on
pick
qualify
seize upon
cocker up
walk
pick on
mark
self-reflect
accede
find oneself
motivate
find one's place
handle oneself
husband
do the decent thing
assume the mantle
chase down
find
inform
appropriate
have
play the angles
answer
self-actualize
take a leaf out of someone's book
professionalize
professionalise
verb
- To undertake (an action); to choose an option.
- To try for, to attempt to reach.
- To favor, accept; to have a preference for.
- To attack.
- To develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with.
- To apply equally to.
- To suffice to be used for; to serve as.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, for.
verb
- To select someone (or something) for a particular role or purpose.
- To draw out; to call forth.
- To write a law.
- To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
- To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
- To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
- To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
- To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
- To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
- To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
noun
- Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
- The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
- The draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
- The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
- An act of drinking.
- A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
- A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
- A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
- The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
- An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.
- The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
- Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
- A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
- A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
- A cheque, an order for money to be paid.
adj
verb
- To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
- To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
- To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
- To select and take or approve.
- To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
noun
- An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
- One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
- Anything that can be chosen.
- The power to choose.
- Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
- The best or most preferable part.
intj
adj
verb
- To qualify oneself, through a demonstration of ability, to function in a certain capacity or to act within a certain role.
- To enable one to function in a given manner; to make one capable of performing a given function or of conducting something; to make one fit to fulfill a given purpose or competent to act within a particular role.
- In European institutions of higher education, to qualify as an instructor or professor, usually by defending a dissertation or similar project.
- To supply money to work a mine.
verb
- obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance
- hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
noun
- formality and propriety of manner
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
- (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions
- a district that is reserved for particular purpose
- armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency
- the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
verb
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
adj
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
verb
- To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
- To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
- To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
- To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
- To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
- To have or exercise a determining influence.
- To exercise political authority; to run a government.
noun
verb
- To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense.
- To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
- To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop.
- To perform for an audience.
- To organize a performance for an audience.
- To fool, kid, deceive.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on.
- To bet on.
- To play (a recording).
verb
- To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action.
- To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm.
- To direct a group of animals.
- To direct a conversation.
- To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
- To castrate (a male calf).
- To direct or send an object into a specific place
- To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action.
noun
verb
- To have as intentions of a given kind.
- To be of some level of importance.
- To intend an ensuing comment or statement as an explanation.https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/i_mean%20I%20mean
- To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
- Of a word, symbol etc: to have reference to, to signify.
- To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
- Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.
- To intend (something) for a given purpose or fate; to predestine.
- To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention.
- To lament.
- To convey (a given sense); to signify, or indicate (an object or idea).
adj
- Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.
- Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
- Having the mean (see noun below) as its value; average.
- Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.
- Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
- Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
- Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
- Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
- Powerful; fierce; strong.
- Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
- Difficult, tricky.
noun
- The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.
- Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
- The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms; the arithmetic mean.
- Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
- Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
- A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
verb
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
noun
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
- The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
verb
- To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).
noun
- Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.
- A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.
- A stubborn or determined person.
- The original form of this breed, the British bulldog.
- A bulldog edition.
- Any of various species of African freshwater fish in the genus Marcusenius, a type of elephantfish.
- One of the proctors' officers.
- A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
noun
- A path chosen in life or career.
- A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
- A railway or (UK, rail transport) a single railway track.
- A way or route.
- A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
- Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.
- An underground tunnel in a mine.
adj
verb
- apply oneself to
- put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- ask (for something)
- coat, cover or smear a surface with
- be applicable to; as to an analysis
- give or convey physically
- avail oneself to
- ensure observance of laws and rules
- refer (a word or name) to a person or thing
noun
- The act of making a choice; selection.
- Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
- Something picked or pulled out.
- Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
- The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
- The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
- A gathering to pick fruit.
- Dabbing in stoneworking.
verb
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- 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.
- 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.
noun
- 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 collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- 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.
adj
verb
- To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- To lie, to tell untruths.
- To polish boots to a high shine.
- To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
- To mate with (a cow or heifer).
- To endeavour to raise prices in.
- To mock; to cheat.
- To endeavour to raise the market price of.
adj
- Large and strong, like a bull.
- Adult male.
- Stupid.
- Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
noun
- A policeman.
- The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
- Any adult male bovine.
- Beef.
- Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
- An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
- A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.
- An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
- A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
- An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
- A lie.
- Nonsense.
- An elderly lesbian.
- A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
- A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
- A large, strong man.
- Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
- A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
verb
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
noun
- A person having the ability to generate business, raise funds, or otherwise engineer success for a company, organization, etc.
- A batted ball that is hit very high into the air.
- Someone or something that causes or attempts to cause rain to fall.
- An African or Native American medicine man who seeks to induce rain through performing rituals.
- A person who seeks to induce rainfall through scientific methods, such as cloud seeding.
verb
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
noun
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
verb
- To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
- To certify or license someone for something.
- To throw and catch each object at least twice.
- To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
- To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
- To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
- To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
noun
verb
- To take possession of or claim (an idea, person, event, etc.) as one's own; to assimilate, absorb, annex, co-opt.
- To take up, embrace, enact, or turn eagerly to (a plan, idea, ideology, cause, practice, method, etc.); to grasp, understand, and accept quickly; to adopt wholeheartedly or vigorously.
- To grasp or take hold of (an object) suddenly, forcibly, or tightly.
verb
- To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- To leave, resign.
- To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
- To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- To travel (a distance) by walking.
- To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
- To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
noun
- A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- A distance walked.
- A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
- Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- A trip made by walking.
- An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- A person's conduct or course in life.
- An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
verb
- To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
noun
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- The model number of a device; a device model.
- A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game.
- One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- Attention.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- A characteristic feature.
- A written character or sign.
- A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
noun
- The process or act of selecting.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- A musical piece.
- Something selected.
- A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
verb
- To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
- To conserve.
- To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
- To provide with a husband.
noun
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A prudent or frugal manager.
- The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
- A polled tree; a pollard.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
verb
- accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
- come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- make a discovery, make a new finding
- obtain through effort or management
- decide on and make a declaration about
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
- get or find back; recover the use of
- succeed in reaching; arrive at
noun
noun
- The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
- A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.
- Assumptio.
- The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
- The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
- The taking of a person up into heaven.
- The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
verb
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To obtain.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- See have to.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To cause to be.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- To trick, to deceive.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To depict as being.
- To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To possess, own.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To give birth to.
noun
verb
- To seek ways to advance one's self-interest, especially by making choices in a calculating or crafty manner; to scheme.
- In a game which involves control of a moving object, such as a ball or puck, to seek scoring opportunities by advancing on or shooting at the scoring target in an angular manner across the field of play.
- In a game which involves control of a moving object, such as a ball or puck, to allow for angular movements of the object caused by bounces, rebounds, ricochets, etc. or to carefully guard the corners of the goal, net, or other scoring target.
verb
- To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
- To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
- To make a reply or response to.
- To file a document in response to a complaint.
- To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
noun
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