make mention of
mention
allude
in a nutshell
consult
briefish
crisp
i.e.
succinct
mentioner
epigram
commoratio
laconism
shorthand
semimean
phrasal
ratherish
shorthandedly
subindicative
descriptively
shorthanded
put aside
mell
summat
that is
semisensuous
in sum
subject
adsignify
bring up
broach
briefly
as soon as
refer
ascriptively
anyroad
nudge nudge wink wink
go
say wha
as well as
hint
get the hint
encapsulate
condescend upon
mince
venture
generalize
nod
modest proposal
to the point
word
you
toss up
inquire
semipertinent
nicety
proprial
namaste
suggest
allusion
vocative
descriptive
to wit
semiarticulate
next big thing
askingly
talk to
thing
be like
reiterate
riff
gnome
in brief
preluding
prepared statement
annotatively
multireferential
muse
what was that
too soon
reference
psychobabble
referent
somehow
remark
counterbrief
tersely
to the effect
present
in relation to
niggardish
implore
paraphrastic
you know what
somewhatly
neven
briefish
crisp
succinct
semimean
phrasal
subindicative
semisensuous
semipertinent
proprial
descriptive
semiarticulate
multireferential
present
niggardish
paraphrastic
in a nutshell
i.e.
ratherish
shorthandedly
descriptively
shorthanded
summat
that is
briefly
ascriptively
anyroad
to wit
askingly
in brief
annotatively
too soon
somehow
tersely
somewhatly
mentioner
epigram
commoratio
laconism
subject
nod
modest proposal
word
nicety
allusion
vocative
next big thing
thing
riff
mention
gnome
preluding
prepared statement
reference
referent
make mention of
mention
allude
consult
shorthand
put aside
mell
adsignify
bring up
broach
refer
go
hint
get the hint
encapsulate
condescend upon
mince
venture
generalize
toss up
inquire
namaste
suggest
talk to
be like
reiterate
muse
psychobabble
remark
counterbrief
implore
neven
verb
- To refer to (something) for information.
- To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
- To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
- To advise or offer expertise.
- To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person)
- To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
noun
adj
adj
- Brief and to the point.
- Sharp, clearly defined.
- having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
- Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
- Quick and accurate.
- Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- Dry and cold.
- Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
verb
noun
adv
adj
prep_phrase
noun
- That of which something is stated.
- A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
- An actor; one who takes action.
- A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
verb
- To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave.
- To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
adj
verb
- To mention.
- To raise or rear (children).
- To vomit.
- To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.
- To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory)
- To reach a particular score, especially a milestone.
- To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position.
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.
verb
- To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)
- To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object.
- To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
- To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
- To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
- Required to resit an examination.
- To be referential to another element in a sentence.
- To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
noun
verb
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- 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 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 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.
intj
verb
- To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
- To develop and add hints to a font.
- To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
noun
- A small, barely detectable amount.
- An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
- An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- A clue.
- Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
verb
verb
- To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
- To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
- To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.
- To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
verb
- To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
- To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
- To effect mincingly.
- To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
- To make less; to make small.
- To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
- To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
- To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
noun
noun
- A reference or allusion to something.
- A nomination.
- An instance of inclining the head up and down, as to indicate agreement, or as a cursory greeting.
- Approval.
verb
- To signify by a nod.
- To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
- To allude to something.
- To sway, move up and down.
- To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
- To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
- To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
- To gradually fall asleep.
- To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
noun
- Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
- An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
- A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
- A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning
- The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
- The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
- A minor reprimand.
- Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
- News; tidings
- A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
- A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
- A brief discussion or conversation.
- A promise; an oath or guarantee.
- See words.
- The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
- A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
- The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
- A finite string that is not a command or operator.
- A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
- Logos, Christ.
intj
- Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond."
- An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.
verb
det
- Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
- The individual or group spoken or written to.
pron
- Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
- (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
- The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
- The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
- The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
- The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
noun
verb
verb
intj
noun
adj
- Of, relating to, or providing a description.
- Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
- Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary).
- Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
noun
noun
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
- A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
- A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- Corporeal object.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- A romantic relationship.
- Alternate form of ting.
- One's typical routine, habits, or manner. (Used in possessive constructions.)
- A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.)
- A living being or creature.
- A penis.
- Whatever can be owned.
- Girl; attractive woman.
- Clothes, possessions or equipment.
- That which matters; the crux.
- A romantic couple.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
verb
noun
- A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.
- An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a compact blue starter.
- An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.
- A small statue of a dwarf-like character, often bearded, placed in a garden.
- A banker, especially a secretive international one.
- One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature and games, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually even smaller than dwarves and more focussed on engineering than mining.
- The northern pygmy owl, Glaucidium gnoma, a small owl of the western United States.
- A person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.
noun
- a remark that calls attention to something or someone
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- an indicator that orients you generally
- a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- the act of referring or consulting
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
- (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
- the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to
verb
prep_phrase
adj
- Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this.
- Located in the immediate vicinity.
- Attentive; alert; focused.
- Neither for or against (used in voting to express abstention)
- Relating to now, for the time being; current.
noun
- The current moment or period of time.
- A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions.
- The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
- The present tense.
verb
- To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
- To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
- To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
- To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
- To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
- To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
- To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
- To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
- In omegaverse fiction, to have one's secondary sex (alpha, omega, or beta) become apparent, typically at puberty.
- To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
- To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.
- To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
- To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
- To put on, stage (a play etc.).
- To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
- To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth.
- To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
- To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
- To display one's female genitalia in a way that signals to others that one is ready for copulation. Also referred to as lordosis behaviour.
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