work
by inches
gradually
bit by bit
step by step
gradualize
creep
gently
day by day
graceful
graduate
inch
gradualness
lag
edge
incremental
daily
shade
inchmeal
testingly
by degrees
jittering
wind down
tabor
ooch
squeak out
gradual
lightly
taper
slow-acting
graduality
take one's time
stepmeal
largo
mince
incubation
microgradient
scrape through
downtrend
slowsome
stopgap
drag the chain
dwindling
drain
mildly
modestly
puff out
shift gears
gentle
steply
pliable
painstakingly
halfway
elastic
pliant
dip
fast-acting
flexible
accelerate
hard
regimen
hardly
melt
larghissimo
slope
evaporate
linear
slob
disappear
distil
go up
tamp
development
mount
move through the gears
slue
chronically
evolution
seep
filter
climb up
poco a poco
dial down
dripping water hollows a stone
sluggishness
climb
crawl
isothermal
pedetentously
wear
tweak
semiprocessed
move slowly
graceful
incremental
jittering
gradual
slow-acting
gentle
steply
pliable
elastic
pliant
fast-acting
flexible
larghissimo
linear
isothermal
semiprocessed
gradually
bit by bit
step by step
gently
day by day
daily
inchmeal
testingly
lightly
stepmeal
largo
slowsome
mildly
modestly
painstakingly
halfway
hard
hardly
chronically
poco a poco
pedetentously
gradualness
graduality
incubation
microgradient
downtrend
dwindling
creep
regimen
development
evolution
sluggishness
work
gradualize
creep
graduate
inch
lag
edge
shade
wind down
tabor
ooch
squeak out
taper
take one's time
mince
scrape through
stopgap
drag the chain
drain
puff out
shift gears
dip
accelerate
melt
slope
evaporate
slob
disappear
distil
go up
tamp
mount
move through the gears
slue
seep
filter
climb up
dial down
climb
crawl
wear
tweak
move slowly
verb
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
prep_phrase
verb
- To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
noun
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
- A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
verb
- To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
- To change gradually.
- To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
- To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
- To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
- To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- The man graduated in 1967.
- To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
- Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.
noun
- A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
- A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
- A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
adj
verb
- To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
- to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
adj
noun
- A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- A small island; an islet.
- A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
- Any very short distance.
- A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
- An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
- Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
verb
- To respond slowly.
- To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
- To cause to lag; to slacken.
- To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer).
noun
- A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
- A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
- A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
- Delay; latency.
- One who lags; that which comes in last.
- A bird, the greylag.
- The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- A prisoner, a criminal.
adj
verb
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To win by a small margin.
noun
- A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The boundary line of a surface.
- An advantage.
- The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
verb
- To alter slightly.
- To shield (someone or something) from light.
- To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.
- To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
- To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
- To darken, particularly in drawing.
- To surpass by a narrow margin.
- To throw shade, to subtly insult someone.
- To shield oneself from light.
noun
- Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
- A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
- An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
- A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
- A ghost or specter; a spirit.
- A subtle variation in a concept.
- A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
- Subtle insults.
- A candle-shade.
- A cover around or above a light bulb, a lampshade.
- Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
prep_phrase
verb
- To progress or change a little bit or in small increments.
- To move in a small or restricted space; squirm or squeeze.
- To quietly force to move without drama or noticeable disruption.
- To exceed a limit by a small amount.
- To move or slide a small amount; scoot; scooch.
- To cry out in pain or discomfort.
- To work toward a goal by using small low-risk steps.
- To propel a boat or sailboard by rocking one's body back and forth.
intj
noun
verb
- To diminish gradually.
- To become thinner or narrower at one end.
- To make thinner or narrower at one end.
- (of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.
adj
noun
- A small light.
- A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
- Someone who works with tape or tapes.
- A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
- One who operates a tape machine.
- A slender wax candle.
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
verb
- To effect mincingly.
- To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
- 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.
- To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
noun
noun
- A period of little reaction which is followed by more rapid reaction.
- Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.
- The development of a disease from its causes, or the period of such development.
- One of the four proposed stages of creativity (preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification): the unconscious recombination of thought elements that were stimulated through conscious work at one point in time, resulting in novel ideas at a later point.
- Sleeping in a temple or other holy place in order to have oracular dreams or to receive healing.
verb
- To use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained.
- To stop up or fill (a physical gap or hole, or a hiatus).
- To work at a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire is made.
adj
noun
- That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
- Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler.
- A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.
- A person appointed or hired to fill a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire can be made; a temp.
verb
- To flow gradually.
- To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
- To deplete of energy or resources.
- To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
- To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
- To cause liquid to flow out of.
- To lose liquid.
noun
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
- An outhole.
- A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- An act of urination.
verb
- (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
- To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
- To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
- To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
- To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
- To lower into a liquid.
- To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
- To immerse for baptism.
- To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
- To leave.
- To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
- To lower a light's beam.
- To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
noun
- A diplomat.
- A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- The moist form of snuff tobacco.
- A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
- The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
- A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
- Fried bread.
- A foolish person.
- A dip stick.
- A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
- A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- A sauce for dipping.
- The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
verb
- To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- Grow; increase.
- To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- To cause a change of velocity.
- To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
adj
adv
- slowly and with difficulty
- with effort or force or vigor
- with firmness
- earnestly or intently
- causing great damage or hardship
- indulging excessively
- into a solid condition
- very near or close in space or time
- with pain or distress or bitterness
- to the full extent possible; all the way
adj
- very strong or vigorous
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content
- unfortunate or hard to bear
- dried out
adj
- not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
- dispassionate
- resisting weight or pressure
- produced without vibration of the vocal cords
- (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
- (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum
verb
- become less intense and fade away gradually
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
- lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually
- become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly
noun
verb
- To tend steadily upward or downward.
- To try to move surreptitiously.
- To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
- To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
noun
- The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
- An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
- The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).
- The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
- The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
adj
- Made, or designed to be used, in a step-by-step, sequential manner.
- A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
- Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
- Of or relating to a class of polynomial of the form y=ax+b.
- Of or relating to lines.
- Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.
verb
- To flow or pass gently or slowly; hence (figuratively) to be manifested gently or gradually.
- To impart (information, etc.) in small quantities; to infuse.
- To make (something, especially spirits such as gin and whisky) by distillation.
- To drip or be wet with some liquid.
- To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops.
- To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
- Followed by off or out: to expel (a volatile substance) from something by distillation.
- To transform a thing (into something else) by distillation.
- To fall or trickle down in small drops; to exude, to ooze out; also, to come out as a vapour which condenses in small drops.
- To turn into a vapour and then condense back into a liquid; to undergo or be produced by distillation.
- To extract the essence of (something) by, or as if by, distillation; to concentrate, to purify.
noun
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
- a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
- processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
verb
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- attach to a support
- go up or advance
- fix onto a backing, setting, or support
- put up or launch
- get up on the back of
- prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance
- copulate with
noun
- a lightweight horse kept for riding only
- the act of climbing something
- a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
- a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place
- something forming a back that is added for strengthening
verb
- To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
- To sort, sift, or isolate.
- To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
- To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
- To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
noun
- self-restraint in speech.
- A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
- A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
- Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
- A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.
- Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
proverb
- Many minor influences gradually produce a significant effect.
- The Saying is a paraphrase on a similar proverb from the biblical book of Job (14:19), or perhaps a translation of that proverb: אֲבָנִ֤ים ׀ שָׁ֥חֲקוּ מַ֗יִם Avanim, Shahaqu Mime. Literally: Rocks - have been graded down (by) water, which has been translated: Water wears away stones, or in the King James version, (because the word Mayim or Mime for water is seemingly in the plural, ending with -yim ): "The waters wear the stones".
verb
- To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
- To swim using the crawl stroke.
- To act in a servile manner.
- To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
- To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
- Followed by with: see crawl with.
- To feel a swarming sensation.
noun
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
- A very slow pace.
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
- A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
- The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
- A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
verb
- To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
- To defend; protect.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
noun
verb
- To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
- To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
- To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse.
- To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
- To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).
noun
verb
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