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verb
- To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- To conclude.
- To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- To kill someone or something.
- To issue or result.
- To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
adj
verb
- To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
- To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
- To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
- To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- To forcibly direct (something).
- To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
- To drive away by setting a fire.
- To animate; to give life or spirit to.
- To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
- To set (something, often a building) on fire.
- To set off an explosive in a mine.
- To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
- To feed or serve the fire of.
- To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
- To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
- To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
- To cause an action potential in a cell.
- To cauterize.
noun
- A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
- The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
- Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
- The elements necessary to start a fire.
- Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
- Red coloration in a piece of opal.
- The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
- A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
- Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
- An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
- A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
- A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
- An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
- The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
adj
verb
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To have the potential to; be possible.
- To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- Used with verbs of perception.
- May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To shut up.
- To know how to; to be able to.
- To seal in a can.
- To hole the ball.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- The boss canned him for speaking out.
noun
- An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- Jail or prison.
- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- Buttocks.
- Headphones.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
noun
- The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
- The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
- An induced abortion.
- An end in time; a conclusion.
- An end in space; an edge or limit.
- An outcome or result.
- The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
- The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
noun
- the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
- the state of lacking unity
- coming apart
- the distance between things
- sorting one thing from others
- the social act of separating or parting company
- the space where a division or parting occurs
- (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
- the act of dividing or disconnecting
verb
- To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
- To get a batsman out.
- To give someone a red card; to send off.
- To reject; to refuse to accept.
- To order to leave.
- To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
- To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).
- To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.
verb
noun
- One whose employment has been terminated
- A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Relations among people.
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
adj
verb
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- force to leave (an office)
- force or drive out
- press, force, or thrust out of a small space
- expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
- cause to come out in a squirt
- force with the thumb
- emit or cause to move with force of effort
noun
verb
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- plunder (a town) after capture
- make as a net profit
- put in a sack
noun
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- an enclosed space
- the quantity contained in a sack
- any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
- a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
- a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
verb
- To dismiss from employment.
- To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.
- To ignore (a comment, etc.).
- To emotionally disengage or to distract oneself from a situation.
- To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go.
- To gain weight
verb
- To strike off the payroll.
- To annul by legal means.
- To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- To lose weight.
- To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
- To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
- To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- To reform a line or column from (a square).
verb
- To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- To abridge; to curtail.
- To cut down or reduce.
- To live less expensively; to economize.
- To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- To take up a new defensive position.
verb
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To release (an accumulated charge).
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
noun
- The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The process of flowing out.
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- The act of expelling or letting go.
- The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- The process of unloading something.
verb
- (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
- In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
- To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
- To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
noun
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)
- the act of liberating someone or something
- a process that liberates or discharges something
- an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
- euphemistic expressions for death
- a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- the act of allowing a fluid to escape
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone
verb
- release, as from one's grip
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- eliminate (a substance)
- generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
- make (information) available for publication
- part with a possession or right
- release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- make (assets) available
verb
- To end one's shift at a job.
- To have one's tires skid against the ground; to peel off, peel out.
- To destroy by fire.
- To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit.
- To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.
- To tire due to overwork; to overwork to their limit.
- To become extinguished due to lack of fuel.
- To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices).
noun
verb
- To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
- To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
- To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
- To cancel a project or product.
- To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
- To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
noun
- A racetrack, hippodrome; or the sport of racing horses.
- A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
- A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
- A block of peat used as fuel.
- A territory claimed by a person, gang, etc., as their own.
verb
verb
- To defeat a contract.
- 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 become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- 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 terminate; to call the end of.
- To terminate a computer program.
- To make trades offsetting an existing position, leaving the trader with a neutral position.
- Of a wave, to break all at once, instead of progressively along its length.
- To exclude by blocking all opportunities to enter or join.
- To seal off.
- Synonym of close (“to make a sale”)
noun
- The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
- The state of being redundant
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language
- Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
noun
verb
verb
- To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- followed by of; general use
- To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- To yearn intensely.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
- To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To lose a game.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- followed by with as an indication of manner
noun
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- Any small cubical or square body.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
noun
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- a community of people smaller than a town
- a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
- the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- an area where a group of families live together
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