cotton on to
have one's finger on the pulse
skill
wrap one's head around
suss out
learn
figure
get to grips with
penetrate
bottom
fathom
conceive
glom on
teach
cotton on
enlighten
hear
wise up
have the foggiest
lesson
seen
see about
tumble to
cognize
au fait
come to
recognition
tell of
have a handle on
let know
catch on
realization
take
realisation
ken
familiarize
indicate
attuite
know from a bar of soap
nounal
pick up
forstand
construe
know beans about
go in
get it
feel
enlightened
descriptive
digestion
work out
make something of
appraise
insense
receive
come to be
pick up what someone is putting down
interpreted
Palladian
precomprehend
aah
come on
taken
breed
avocational
foresense
awakening
sense
synonymic
tape
mell
make happen
adumbrate
insinuate
communicate
orite
plug into
recover one's senses
regain one's senses
return to one's senses
come back to one's senses
clue in
get
intimate
transpire
come hither
set
acquaint
forsta
definitional
know
read up
nounify
harbinger
witness
get to the bottom of
intonement
au fait
nounal
enlightened
descriptive
interpreted
Palladian
taken
avocational
synonymic
definitional
lesson
recognition
realization
realisation
digestion
awakening
intonement
cotton on to
have one's finger on the pulse
skill
wrap one's head around
suss out
learn
figure
get to grips with
penetrate
bottom
fathom
conceive
glom on
teach
cotton on
enlighten
hear
wise up
have the foggiest
seen
see about
tumble to
cognize
come to
tell of
have a handle on
let know
catch on
take
ken
familiarize
indicate
attuite
know from a bar of soap
pick up
forstand
construe
know beans about
go in
get it
feel
work out
make something of
appraise
insense
receive
come to be
pick up what someone is putting down
precomprehend
come on
breed
foresense
sense
tape
mell
make happen
adumbrate
insinuate
communicate
plug into
recover one's senses
regain one's senses
return to one's senses
come back to one's senses
clue in
get
intimate
transpire
set
acquaint
forsta
know
read up
nounify
harbinger
witness
get to the bottom of
verb
- To know; to understand.
- To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
- To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
- To set apart; separate.
- To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
- To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
adj
noun
verb
- To come to understand.
- To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
- To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
- To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
- To enter into; to be a part of.
- To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
- To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- To embellish.
- To be reasonable.
noun
- A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
- A number, an amount.
- A drawing or diagram conveying information.
- A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
- A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
- The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
- A figure of speech.
- The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
- A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
- A numeral.
- A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
- Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
- The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
- A shape.
- Any complex dance moveᵂ.
verb
adj
adj
noun
verb
- To receive information about; to come to learn of.
- To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
- To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
- To study under.
- To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
- To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
- To perceive sounds through the ear.
- To be contacted by.
- To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
intj
noun
- Something learned or to be learned.
- A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
- A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
- A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
- An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
- Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
verb
verb
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, to.
- To total; to amount to.
- To devote attention to in due course; to come around to.
- To stop a sailing vessel, especially by turning into the wind. See also come about.
- To reach; to arrive at.
- To befall; to happen to; to come upon.
- To seek help from.
- To recover consciousness after fainting etc.
- To regard or specifically pertain to.
noun
- coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
- the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
- the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
- approval
- (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape
- the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country
- an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid
- designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body
noun
- coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
- making real or giving the appearance of reality
- a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
- a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained
- the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer
- something that is made real or concrete
verb
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
noun
- coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
- a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
- a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained
- the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer
- making real or giving the appearance of reality
- something that is made real or concrete
verb
- To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
- To collect and detain (a suspect).
- To lift; to grasp and raise.
- To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- To receive calls; to function correctly.
- To record; to notch up.
- To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- To collect an object, especially in passing.
- To answer a telephone.
- To take control (physically) of something.
- To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- To restart or resume.
- To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
- To improve, increase, or speed up.
- To reduce the despondency of.
- To pay for.
- To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To collect a passenger.
verb
- To understand something, to catch on.
- To get what's coming to one: to feel someone's wrath; to receive punishment; to receive a retaliation; to receive a beating.
- To have sex, especially referring to its possibility or eventuality.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, it.
intj
verb
- To be or become aware of.
- To understand.
- To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- To search by sense of touch.
- To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- To experience the consequences of.
- To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
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
verb
- To make sense of.
- To strengthen a part one’s body by exercise.
- To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
- To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort.
- To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
- To conclude with the correct solution.
- To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.
- To smooth or perfect.
- To exercise, especially by lifting weights.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, out.
- To calculate.
verb
- To accept into the mind; to understand.
- To be in a position to hit back a service.
- To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
- To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
- To incur (an injury).
- To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
- To be in a position to catch a forward pass.
- To detect a signal from a transmitter.
- To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
noun
adj
- Of or relating to knowledge, study, or wisdom.
- Of or relating to Pallas, an epithet of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and potentially to other female Greek figures such as Pallas the daughter of Triton and granddaughter of Poseidon.
- In the style of the Italian neoclassical architect Andrea Palladio.
- of or pertaining to the asteroid Pallas
noun
intj
- To express understanding.
- Indication of sympathy.
- Indication of mouth being opened wide.
- Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
- Indication of joyful pleasure.
- The sound of one screaming (with as many a's or h's as needed for emphasis).
verb
- To express amazement or surprise or enthusiasm, especially by the interjection aah.
- To express joy or pleasure, especially by the interjection aah.
noun
verb
- To encounter, discover; to come upon.
- Elaboration of come (in the sense of move towards the speaker or other focus), emphasising motion or progress, or conveying a nuance of familiarity or encouragement.
- To be broadcast (through a device), or (of a broadcast) to begin playing.
- To appear on a stage or in a performance.
- To activate; to turn on.
- To enter the playing field.
- To show sexual or relational interest through words or sometimes actions.
- To progress, to develop.
- To get one's period, start menstruating.
intj
verb
- To educate; to instruct; to bring up
- To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
- To arrange the mating of specific animals.
- To produce or obtain by any natural process.
- To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.
- To yield or result in.
- To ejaculate inside; to attempt to impregnate.
- Of animals, to mate.
- To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
- To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
- To give birth to; to be the native place of.
- To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
noun
verb
- To comprehend.
- To instinctively be aware.
- To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
noun
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- The way that a referent is presented.
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
- One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
verb
noun
- Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
- Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
- The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
- Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
- An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
- Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
- Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
- The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
- A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
verb
- To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
- To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
- To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
- To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
- To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
- To be connected with (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel.
- To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
verb
verb
- To cause to become; to bring about.
- To understand. (compare get it)
- To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- 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 begin (doing something or to do something).
- 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 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
adj
- marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity
- concerning things deeply private and personal
- having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere
- having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship
- used euphemistically to refer to the genitals
- involved in a sexual relationship
- innermost or essential
- thoroughly acquainted through study or experience
noun
verb
- To introduce or describe.
- 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 solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
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 have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
- To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
- To experience.
- To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
- To be or become aware or cognizant.
- To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
- To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
- To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
- To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
noun
verb
verb
- To see or gain knowledge of through experience.
- To take as evidence.
- To furnish proof of, to show.
- To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.
- To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.
noun
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