inchoate
initiate
get
get going
set forth
embark
commence
ring up the curtain
come on to
begin
astart
incept
tip off
start up
start
start off
start out
head
head off
set off
outstart
lay a foundation
institute
rock and roll
exordium
get the show on the road
found
opening
kick start
set about
take it
get off the ground
break
execute
off
go
début
kick off
introductory
make the first move
trigger
at first
deployment
go-off
off the mark
get started
starter
open
restart
get a jump on
resume
dawn
go ahead
re-start
birth
get cracking
from soda to hock
get on
induct
let's get this circus on the road
misstart
set
prepare
light
early doors
anticipate
break into
get the ball rolling
launch
starting
fly out of the traps
raise
commencer
get-go
front
let her rip
incipience
propaedeutic
reboot
starting gate
initially
step to
date
set forward
make as if
let's go
launch pad
broach
initiative
boun
in the first place
pipe up
new
nascence
opening
introductory
early doors
starting
propaedeutic
new
initially
begin
exordium
off
start
deployment
go-off
starter
birth
commencer
get-go
front
incipience
starting gate
kick start
launch pad
initiative
nascence
inchoate
initiate
get
get going
set forth
embark
commence
ring up the curtain
come on to
astart
incept
tip off
start up
start
start off
start out
head
head off
set off
outstart
lay a foundation
begin
institute
rock and roll
get the show on the road
found
kick start
set about
take it
get off the ground
break
execute
go
début
kick off
make the first move
trigger
get started
open
restart
get a jump on
resume
dawn
go ahead
re-start
get cracking
get on
induct
misstart
set
prepare
light
anticipate
break into
get the ball rolling
launch
fly out of the traps
raise
let her rip
reboot
step to
date
set forward
make as if
broach
boun
pipe up
verb
- To begin (doing something or to do something).
- To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- To cause to become; to bring about.
- To kill.
- To receive.
- To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- To getter.
- To obtain; to acquire.
- To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- To have. See usage notes.
- To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- To cause to do.
- To fetch, bring, take.
- To become, or cause oneself to become.
- To understand. (compare get it)
- To catch out, trick successfully.
- To find as an answer.
- To hear completely; catch.
- To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- To go, to leave; to scram.
- To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- To measure.
- To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- To perplex, stump.
- To cause to come or go or move.
noun
verb
verb
- To begin.
- To take in or ingest.
- To put an idea into a person's mind so deeply that they believe it was their own. Inspired by the movie Inception (2010) and used by Mark Zuckerberg & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation at 01:23:00.
- To be accepted to the Master of Arts degree at Oxford or Cambridge University.
verb
- To begin.
- To flinch or draw back.
- To awaken suddenly.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- To break away, to come loose.
- To put into play.
- To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- To set in motion.
- To have its origin (at), begin.
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- To start one's periods (menstruation).
- To begin an activity.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
noun
- An instance of starting.
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning of an activity.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
verb
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
- Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
- Coming from in front.
- Placed at the top or the front.
- Foremost in rank or importance.
noun
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
verb
- To begin; to cause; to initiate.
- To put into an angry mood; to start (a person) ranting or sulking, etc.
- To leave; to begin a journey or trip.
- To enhance by emphasizing differences.
- To offset, to compensate for: to reduce the effect of, by having a contrary effect.
- To deface or soil the next sheet; said of the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time to dry.
- To cause to explode, let off.
verb
verb
noun
- An intangible feeling, philosophy, belief or allegiance relating to rock music, characterized by unbridled enthusiasm, hedonism, and cynical regard for authoritarian bodies.
- Dole, payment by the state to the unemployed.
- The full automatic fire capability selection on a selective fire weapon.
- The ability to run the picture and audio back and forth in synchronization, allowing the correction of mistakes during dubbing.
- A style of vigorous dancing associated with this genre of music.
- A genre of popular music that evolved in the 1950s from a combination of rhythm and blues and country music, characterized by electric guitars, strong rhythms, and youth-oriented lyrics.
adj
noun
- an open or empty space in or between things
- a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
- becoming open or being made open
- the first performance (as of a theatrical production)
- the act of opening something
- opportunity especially for employment or promotion
- the initial part of the introduction
- a possible alternative
- an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity
- a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
- the first of a series of actions
verb
- To begin or end.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To start, launch or run
- To run, usually successfully.
- Coordinate term: murder
- To carry out; to put into effect.
- To perform.
- To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
- To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
noun
verb
adv
- Offstage.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
adj
- Inoperative, disabled.
- On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- Inappropriate; untoward.
- Circumstanced.
- Cancelled; not happening.
- Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Presently unavailable.
- Started on the way.
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- The off front wheel came loose.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Far; off to the side.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Out of the possession of.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
verb
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- 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 apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- 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 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.
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.
adj
verb
- To start; to launch.
- To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
- To suddenly become more active.
- To shut down or turn off suddenly.
- To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders. Used figuratively or literally.
- To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight.
- To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
- To have a fight or argument start.
- To die or quit permanently.
verb
- To initiate something.
- To fire a weapon.
- To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone).
- To activate; to become active.
noun
- An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
- An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or a strong reaction in a person.
- An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.
- A concept or image that upsets somebody by sparking a negative emotional response.
- A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
- An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
- A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
- A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command.
- A device that manually lengthens (or sometimes shortens) the slide or tubing of a brass instrument, allowing the pitch range to be altered while playing.
- A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
prep_phrase
noun
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.
- A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process.
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- A dog that rouses game.
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- A starting pitcher.
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
- A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
verb
- To enter upon, begin.
- To start (a campaign).
- To move to a position allowing fluid to flow.
- To bring up, broach.
- To make accessible to customers or clients.
- To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
- To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
- To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- To become open.
- To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
- To turn on; to switch on.
- To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
- To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
- To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers.
- To begin conducting business.
- To reveal one's hand.
- To load into memory for viewing or editing.
noun
- Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
- Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
- The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message.
- A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing.
- A sports event in which anybody can compete.
adj
- Not fulfilled.
- Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
- Having a free variable.
- Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot.
- Public
- Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow.
- With open access, of open science, or both.
- Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
- Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
- In current use; mapped to part of memory.
- Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
- Able to have something pass through or along it.
- not covered, showing what is inside
- To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
- Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.
- To be in a position allowing fluid to flow.
- Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
- Able to be accessed (physically).
- Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
- That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
- Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended.
- Receptive.
- Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
- Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement.
- Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
- Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
- Whose first and last vertices are different.
prep_phrase
verb
- apply or start
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- decide upon or fix definitely
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
- fix in a border
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly
- locate
- disappear beyond the horizon
- adapt for performance in a different way
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- become gelatinous
- set in type
- put into a position that will restore a normal state
- insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
- give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
- urge to attack someone
- estimate
- equip with sails or masts
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- produce fruit
- arrange attractively
adj
- (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed
- fixed and unmoving
- situated in a particular spot or position
- set down according to a plan
- being below the horizon
- determined or decided upon as by an authority
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
noun
- a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
- several exercises intended to be done in series
- representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- the act of putting something in position
- a unit of play in tennis or squash
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon
- (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
- any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
verb
- To start (a fire).
- To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
- To become ignited; to take fire.
- To set fire to; to set burning.
- To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
- To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
- To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
- To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
- To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
- To find by chance.
noun
- A low-alcohol lager.
- A source of illumination.
- A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
- A window in architecture, carriage design, or motor car design: either the opening itself or the window pane of glass that fills it, if any.
- A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
- A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
- A cigarette lighter.
- The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
- Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
- Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
- The brightness of the eye or eyes.
- A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler who is receiving instructions.
- A flame or something used to create fire.
- A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
- See lights (“lungs”).
- A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
- Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light.
- The power of perception by vision.
adv
adj
- Easy to endure or perform.
- Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
- Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.
- Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
- Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
- Without any piece of equipment attached or attached only to a caboose.
- Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
- With low viscosity.
- Easily interrupted by stimulation.
- Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
- Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
- Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
- Lightly built; typically designed for speed or small loads.
- Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
- Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
- Served with extra milk or cream.
- Slight, not forceful or intense; small in amount or intensity.
- Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
- Gentle; having little force or momentum.
- Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
- Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
- Free from burden or impediment; unencumbered.
verb
- To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
- To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
- To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
- To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
- Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
- To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
- To start to operate.
- To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
- To release; to put onto the market for sale
noun
- The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
- A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
- An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
- The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
- The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
- An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
verb
verb
- To open, initiate.
- To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- To create, increase or develop.
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To collect or amass.
- To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- To promote.
- To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To bring up; to grow.
- To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To exponentiate, to involute.
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
noun
noun
noun
noun
- The beginning.
- An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- A seafront or coastal promenade.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- A field of activity.
- The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- The direction of the enemy.
- The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
adj
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one).
- Located at or near the front.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
verb
- To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- To appear before.
- To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- To face, be opposite to.
verb
- To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
- To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
- To determine the age of something.
- To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
- To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
- To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
- To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
noun
- The date palm.
- The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
- A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
- One's companion for social activities or occasions.
- A pre-arranged meeting.
- The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
- A point in time.
- Assigned end; conclusion.
- A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
verb
- To begin discussion about (something).
- To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
- To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
- To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
- To break the surface of the water.
- To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
noun
- A spire rising from a tower.
- A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
- An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
- A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
- The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
- The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
- A spit for cooking food.
- A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
adj
- Next; about to begin or recently begun.
- Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
- Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
- Recently made, or created.
- Of recent origin; having taken place recently.
- In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
- Recently arrived or appeared.
- Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
- Current or later, as opposed to former.
- Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
- Additional; recently discovered.
- Newborn.
noun
- A naval cadet who has just embarked on training.
- A typically light-coloured lager brewed by the bottom-fermentation method.
- Things that are new.
verb
adv
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