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verb
- To penalize for an infraction.
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To signal (an event).
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- To pave with flagstones.
- To weaken, become feeble.
- To set a program variable to true.
- To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
- To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
noun
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- The game of capture the flag.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc.
- In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- A signal flag.
- A slice of turf; a sod.
noun
- The penalty for this offence.
- Crime, offence, wrongdoing.
- Any of a number of criminal offences incurring similar penalties to the original offence of praemunire.
- The offence in English law of bringing suit in or obeying a foreign (especially papal) court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown. The offence was created by the Statute of Praemunire 1393 (16 Richard II, chapter 5), and abolished by the Criminal Law Act 1967 (chapter 58).
- A difficulty or predicament.
- The writ charging a person with this offence, the writ of praemunire facias.
verb
verb
- To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).
- To play slap bass on (an instrument).
- To be excellent.
- To cause something to strike soundly.
- To strike soundly against something.
- To place, to put carelessly.
- To give a slap to.
noun
- The percussive sound produced in slap bass playing.
- An eye-catching sticker used in street art.
- Makeup; cosmetics.
- A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
- A sharp percussive sound like that produced by such a blow.
adv
noun
- A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
- A legal sentence.
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
- A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
verb
- inflict as a punishment
- cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
- be the cause or source of
- transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
- convey or reveal information
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- organize or be responsible for
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- give as a present; make a gift of
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- dedicate
- give or supply
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- bring about
- leave with; give temporarily
- emit or utter
- endure the loss of
- place into the hands or custody of
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- give (as medicine)
- give or convey physically
- bestow
- bestow, especially officially
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- give food to
- contribute to some cause
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- estimate the duration or outcome of something
- execute and deliver
- deliver in exchange or recompense
- afford access to
- present to view
- perform for an audience
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- propose
- accord by verdict
- manifest or show
- offer in good faith
- submit for consideration, judgment, or use
- guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion
- allow to have or take
- occur
- consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man
- proffer (a body part)
noun
noun
- A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
- The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
- A formula with no free variables.
verb
verb
- To pay any penalty to any community.
- To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry.
- To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.
- To beat in the card game lanterloo.
noun
- An act that prompts such a penalty.
- A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.
- A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
- Any group of people.
- A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.
- A lieutenant.
- A game of lanterloo.
intj
noun
- punishment for one's actions
- the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
- (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
- the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
verb
noun
- punishment for one's actions
- an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
- any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds
- musical activity (singing or whistling etc.)
- (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)
verb
- To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).
- To make the score of a game equal.
- To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
- To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
- To speak honestly and openly with.
- To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
- To progress to the next level.
- To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
- To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
noun
- A floor of a multi-storey building.
- A school grade or year.
- Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
- Degree or amount.
- A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.
- An area of almost perfectly flat land.
- One of the specific values which may be taken by a categorical variable.
- Achievement or qualification.
- A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
- A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
- One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
adj
- In the same position or rank.
- Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
- Unvaried in volume.
- Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
- Unvaried in frequency.
- Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
- The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
- Calm.
- At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
- Straightforward; direct; clear.
verb
- To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To obtain.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- See have to.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To cause to be.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- To trick, to deceive.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To depict as being.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To possess, own.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To give birth to.
noun
noun
- Penalty.
- Penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
- The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
- An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- A female swan.
- A writer, or their style.
- The bullpen.
- Marks of ink left by a pen.
- A light pen.
- A wing.
- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
verb
verb
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
verb
- To penalize.
- To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- To flick.
- To cause something to bounce.
- To bounce.
- To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- To call out audibly.
- To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
noun
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- Latency.
- A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
- A notification.
- A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
adj
- For the purpose of imposing punishment.
- Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
- We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.
- Of or relating to an academic field of study.
noun
verb
- To punish for a misdemeanor.
- To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- To suffice.
- To finish.
- To fare, perform (well or poorly).
- To have (as an effect).
- To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
- A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- To take drugs.
- To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- To be reasonable or acceptable.
- To have sex with. (See also do it)
- To have as one's job.
- To cook.
- To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- To make or provide.
- A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
- To treat in a certain way.
- To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- Let’s do New York also.
- To kill.
- To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
- To impersonate or depict.
- To injure (one's own body part).
- To perform; to execute.
- To cheat or swindle.
noun
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
- A homicide.
- A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.
- Something that can or should be done.
num
verb
- To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
- To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
- To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- To change by fine gradations.
- To pay a fine.
noun
- Something that is fine; fine particles.
- A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
- The end of a musical composition.
- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
- A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- Fine champagne; French brandy.
- The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
adv
- Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
- In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
- Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.
adj
- Of superior quality.
- Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
- Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
- Made of slender or thin filaments.
- Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
- An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
- Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
- Good-looking, attractive.
- Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
- Sunny and not raining.
- Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
noun
- A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
- The card game piquet.
- A stake driven into the ground.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- A sentry.
verb
verb
- To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
- To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
- To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
- Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
- Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
- To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
- To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
noun
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