have the cards in one's hands
make one's own luck
see one's way clear to
make hay while the sun shines
play into someone's hands
underwrite
get what's coming to one
pay the fiddler
take it upon oneself
scotch
intervene
measure
take the wheel
capability
hijack
accountability
road map
arm
inducing
play the odds
guideline
make or break
lord it over
resist
inducement
effectivity
decisive
work
intention
preconditioning
pull the trigger
intent
purpose
bring to bear
procedure
set on
aim
design
process
opportunistic
have it your way
set the wheels in motion
determination
go for
contributory
take
interject
ready
facilitation
effectiveness
foiling
walk a tightrope
ask for
adopt
conduce
tend
resolve
clear the decks
release
effectually
provide
difference-making
at one's own peril
step up to the plate
pick up
have one's way
plan
see to
seize
aim at
practicable
viable
play by the rules
teleologism
means to an end
try for
turn one's hand to
hypothetical imperative
workable
motivated
punch someone's ticket
cross the Rubicon
court
feasible
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hold hostage
countercraft
can't do right for doing wrong
operational
own
face the music
responsibility
manoeuvre
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reward
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verb
- To prevent (something) from being successful.
- To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
- To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
- To rape.
- To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
- To block a wheel or other round object.
- To cut or score; to wound superficially.
noun
verb
- To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.
- To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
- To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
- To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
- In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
noun
- Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A unit of measurement.
- A piece of legislation.
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- A bed or stratum.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
verb
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
verb
- To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one.
- To seize control of a networked computer by means of infecting it with a worm or other malware, thereby turning it into a zombie.
- To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
- To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions.
- To change software settings without a user's knowledge so as to force that user to visit a certain web site.
noun
noun
- An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
- The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
- The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping.
- Good-faith acceptance of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
verb
- To become prepared for action; to activate.
- To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
- To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
- To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
- To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
- To prepare (a tool, weapon, or system) for action; to activate.
- To supply with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task; to furnish with capability; to equip.
adj
noun
- A pitcher
- A group of patients in a medical trial.
- A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
- A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
- The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
- The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.
- One of the two parts of a chromosome.
- Heraldic bearings or insignia.
- A branch of an organization.
- A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
- A weapon.
- The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
- Power; might; strength; support.
verb
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- 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 effect by gradual degrees;
- 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 effect by gradual degrees.
- 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.
noun
- an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- the action of directing something at an object
- the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
verb
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- propose or intend
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- direct (a remark) toward an intended goal
- have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
noun
- an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
- the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
- an arrangement scheme
- something intended as a guide for making something else
- a decorative or artistic work
- a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something
- the creation of something in the mind
verb
- make or work out a plan for; devise
- plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect
- create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner
- make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form
- create designs
- conceive or fashion in the mind; invent
- intend or have as a purpose
noun
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
- a mental process that you are not directly aware of
- a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
- a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
verb
- subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
- deal with in a routine way
- perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information
- institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
- shape, form, or improve a material
- deliver a warrant or summons to someone
verb
noun
- deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature
- the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation
- the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- the act of making up your mind about something
verb
- To undertake (an action); to choose an option.
- To try for, to attempt to reach.
- To favor, accept; to have a preference for.
- To attack.
- To develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with.
- To apply equally to.
- To suffice to be used for; to serve as.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, for.
verb
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- 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 understand (especially in a specified way).
- 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.
verb
- To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
- To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
- To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
- To select and take or approve.
- To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
verb
- To contribute to or toward some outcome.
- To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning.
- To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
- To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
- To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
- To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.
- To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
- To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
verb
- To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
- To make a firm decision to do something.
- To find a solution to (a problem).
- To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
- To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
- To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
- To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
- To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
- To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
- To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
- To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
- To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
- To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
noun
verb
- To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
- To set free a chemical substance.
- To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
- To make available to the public.
- To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- To free or liberate; to set free.
- (of a call) To hang up.
- To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
- to come out; be out.
- To discharge.
- To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
noun
- The act or manner of ending a sound.
- In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
- The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
- Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
- The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
- The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken
- Orgasm.
- A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
- The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
- The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
- That which is released, untied or let go.
- Liberation from pain or suffering.
verb
- To act to prepare for something.
- To make a living; earn money for necessities.
- To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
- To furnish (with), cause to be present.
- To make possible or attainable.
- To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
- To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
verb
- To take control (physically) of something.
- 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 learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- To collect an object, especially in passing.
- To answer a telephone.
- 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.
noun
- A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
- A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
- A subscription to a service.
- A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
- A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
verb
verb
- To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- To have a seizure.
- Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
- To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
- To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
verb
- To seek to achieve or win.
- To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
- To attempt to attract.
- To attempt to gain alliance with.
- To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
- To engage in courtship behavior.
- To try to win a commitment to marry from.
- To engage in behavior leading to mating.
- To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
noun
- An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.
- Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
- A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
- An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
- Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
- Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
- one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
- The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
- The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
- The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
- The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
- The session of a judicial assembly.
- A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games
- The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
- A housing estate under the House Ownership Scheme.
verb
- To seek advantage in a situation by threatening the well-being or success of (a person or thing not directly involved in the situation).
- To hold in custody or use for any advantage.
- To have possession or custody of (a person) as security for performance against a treaty, a pledge, or a demand, especially now an extra-legal demand.
verb
- To take responsibility for.
- To confess.
- To be very good.
- To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
- To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
- To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
- To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
- To admit; concede; acknowledge.
- To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
- To claim as one's own.
- To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
- To recognise; acknowledge.
adj
noun
- The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success.
- A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
- The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
- The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual.
- The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
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