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verb
- To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).
- To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
- To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
- To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
- To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
- To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm; to commit handball.
- To use the hands.
- To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
- To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
- To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
- To manage, control, or direct.
- To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
noun
- The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
- A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
- A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol.
- The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components in exactly one point.
- The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments.
- An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool, or an opportunity or pretext.
- A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional balls.
- A 10 fluid ounce (285 mL) glass of beer.
- A point, an extremity of land.
- The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience, and other qualities perceived by touch.
- A name, nickname or pseudonym.
- A title attached to one's name, such as Doctor or Colonel.
noun
- A plan or explanation to guide one in setting standards or determining a course of action.
- A light line, used in lettering, to help align the text.
- A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour.
- He considered the Ten Commandments more as a guideline than a requirement.
noun
- A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.
- A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.
- A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
- Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
- A morality play.
- Recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.
suffix
verb
- To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
- To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.
- To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
- To do (something); to execute.
- To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
- To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
- To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).
- To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.
verb
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- 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 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.
verb
verb
- To introduce or impose the standards of one civilisation upon another civilization, group or person, arguably with the intent of achieving a perceived higher standard of behavior.
- To bring from a state of savagery to an educated or refined state.
- To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
verb
- To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
- To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that is unknown to the one being manipulated and beneficial to the manipulator; to use
- To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
- To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
noun
- a rule or standard especially of good behavior
- a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct
- a basic truth or law or assumption
- a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system
- rule of personal conduct
- (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)
verb
- To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
- To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative
- To address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
- To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)
- To put closely; to join; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention
- To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).
- To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case
noun
- A set of rules regulating behaviour.
- A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
- A specific branch of knowledge or learning.
- An enforced compliance or control.
- A whip used for self-flagellation.
- A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
- A controlled behaviour; self-control.
- A punishment to train or maintain control.
- A state of order based on submission to authority.
- A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
verb
noun
- prescribed guide for conduct or action
- a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
- something regarded as a normative example
- (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice
- a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct
- the duration of a monarch's or government's power
- dominance or power through legal authority
- directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted
- any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order
- a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system
- (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems
- measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths
verb
noun
- a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
- an authoritative command
- the state of being controlled or governed
- (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered
- the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular
- the act of controlling or directing according to rule
adj
verb
- To set the focus of (something) so as to appeal or relate to a certain group.
- To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation.
- To change direction to face a certain way.
- To direct towards or point at a particular direction.
- To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.
- To align or place (a person or object) so that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature.
- To determine which direction one is facing.
adj
- Of a pearl or other gem: of great brilliance and value; (by extension) bright, lustrous.
- Of, facing, or located in the east; eastern, oriental.
name
noun
verb
- To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- To travel by sailing.
- To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
- To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
- To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
- To leave or begin a journey.
- To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
- To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- to move and cause an effect on someone
- To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- To throw dice.
- To generate a random number.
- To have a rolling aspect.
- To create a customized version of.
- To (cause to) film.
- To utter with an alveolar trill.
- To beat up; to assault.
- To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- To compete, especially with vigor.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- To turn over and over.
- To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
- To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
- To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
- To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To betray secrets.
noun
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- That which is rolled up.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
verb
- To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
- To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
- To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
- To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
- To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
- To have or exercise a determining influence.
- To exercise political authority; to run a government.
noun
verb
- To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
- To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
- To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.
- To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.
- To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration.
- To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
noun
adj
- demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
- pulled or drawn tight
- set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration
- pressed tightly together
- (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
- affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow
- of textiles
- securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- very drunk
- exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
- packed closely together
adv
adj
noun
- a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made
- a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
- physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
- a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone
- a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
- a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
- a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game
- a major division of a long written composition
- a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge
verb
verb
- To enforce norms or standards upon.
- To clean up an area.
- To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
noun
- The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
- Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
- A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
- A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
- A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
- People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
- Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
noun
- a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
- the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
- a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
- a single drawing in a comic strip
- an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
- a structure supporting or containing something
- a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror
- one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
verb
verb
- To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to.
- To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
- To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.
- To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
- To pass without interference; to miss.
- To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).
- To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.
- To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
- To exceed a stated mark.
- To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of.
- To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.
- To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
- To obtain a clearance.
- To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.
- To earn a profit of; to net.
- To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
- To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
- To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
noun
- A person who is free from the influence of engrams.
- The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.
- Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
adv
- Not near something or touching it.
- All the way; entirely.
- Free (or separate) from others.
- In a clear manner; plainly.
adj
- Free of obstacles.
- Good, the best.
- Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood.
- Without clouds.
- Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
- Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
- Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
- Transparent in colour.
- Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
- Unmixed; entirely pure.
- Without diminution; in full; net.
- Showing a green aspect, allowing a train to proceed past it.
- Better than, superior to.
- Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
- Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
- Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
- Without a thickening ingredient.
- Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
- Free of guilt, or suspicion.
- Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.
verb
- To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
- To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
- To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
- To move to and fro.
- To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
- To compete against, in a game.
- To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
- To produce music using a musical instrument.
- To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
- To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
- (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
- To gamble.
- To produce music.
- To act or perform (a play).
- To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
- To put in action or motion.
- To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
- To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
noun
- A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- The conduct, or course, of a game.
- A short sequence of action within a game.
- An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- A theatrical performance featuring actors.
noun
- Any control, either formal or informal, that is exerted by a group, especially by one's peers
noun
- A set of rules defining behaviour.
- The overall form or organization of something.
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
- Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
verb
verb
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- To place conditions or limitations upon.
- To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
- To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
- To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- To subject to the process of acclimation.
- To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
- To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
- To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
noun
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A requirement or requisite.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
- A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
- The state or quality.
- A particular state of being.
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