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there's more than one way to skin a cat
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yak shaving
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nail the hammer on the head
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hack away
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laboring oar
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brainstorm
diakoptics
cure
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answer
problem-solve
reinvent the wheel
station
hunker
task
square the circle
example
come out in the wash
intratask
resolution
exercise
leg up
heaven helps those who help themselves
hard yards
crank the handle
procedure
chapter
throw a wrench in
ticket
how-to
in a bind
solving
put the same shoe on every foot
queer someone's pitch
detail
work
on the wrong track
lick
puzzle out
try on
job
work out
figure out
solubility
bag of tricks
polypragmatism
work at
throw down the gauntlet
route
enodation
a problem shared is a problem halved
formula
iron out
kick at the can
beaver away
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pragmatist
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fudge the issue
make an effort
unriddle
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verb
- To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
- To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to.
- To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
- To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
- To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
- To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
- To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.
- To refer to a location in computer memory.
- To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).
- To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).
- To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
noun
- An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this.
- A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style.
- A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter.
- The property itself.
- A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory; a string of characters identifying a location on the internet or other network; sometimes (specifically) an e-mail address.
- The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging.
- A formal approach to a sovereign, especially an official appeal or petition; later (specifically) a response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament.
verb
- To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
- to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime)
- To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions.
- To loosen or separate the parts of.
- To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
verb
- To solve a difficult problem.
- To change rapidly in register.
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- To form cracks.
- To make a cracking sound.
- To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- To make a crack or cracks in.
- To make a sharply humorous comment.
- To open slightly.
- To overcome a security system or component.
- To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- To strike forcefully.
- To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- To tell (a joke).
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- To cause to make a sharp sound.
- To realize that one is transgender.
- To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
- To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
adj
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- Vagina.
- The space between the buttocks.
- A narrow opening.
- Any sharp sound.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- a meaningful chat.
- Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- Business; events; news.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
verb
- To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
- To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
- To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
- To attack physically.
- To geld.
- To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
- To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
noun
- An act of sorting.
- A type.
- An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
- Manner; form of being or acting.
- A general type.
- A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
- A good-looking woman.
noun
- a method for solving a problem
- the successful action of solving a problem
- a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
verb
- To find a solution to (a problem).
- To make a firm decision to do something.
- To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
- 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 attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).
- To play an approach shot.
- To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
- Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
- To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
- Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
- To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.
- To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
- To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
noun
- A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).
- An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
- The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
- An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
- The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
- A path taken to reach the climbing area, for example, from a car park, road, etc.
- An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
- A specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.
verb
verb
- To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- To ponder, to go over in one's head.
- To guess; to reckon.
- To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- To presume; to venture.
- To seem, to appear.
- To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
noun
noun
- A solution to a problem.
- Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
- That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
- A method, device or medication that restores good health.
- Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
- A process of solidification or gelling.
- A process of preservation, as by smoking.
- A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
verb
- To cause to be rid of (a defect).
- To bring about a cure of any kind.
- To preserve (food), typically by salting.
- To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
- To solidify or gel.
- To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
- To restore to health.
noun
- A solution to a problem.
- A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
- A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.
verb
- To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
- To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
- To make a reply or response to.
- To file a document in response to a complaint.
- To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
verb
verb
noun
- A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
- Standing; rank; position.
- A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
- The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
- Any of the Stations of the Cross.
- A gas station, service station.
- The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- A place where some object is provided.
- A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
- A military base.
- An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
- A ground transportation depot.
- A very large sheep or cattle farm.
- The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
- A broadcasting entity.
- Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
- Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
- In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
adj
noun
- The act or process of solving; solution.
- The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
- A strong will, determination.
- The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
- The act of discerning detail.
- A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
- The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
- The degree of fineness of such a separation.
- The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup.
- The state of being resolute.
- The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
- A statement of intent, a vow
- Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
- In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
noun
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- the act of using
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
verb
verb
- To perform a process; to do some work.
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noun
- A particular method for performing a task.
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
- A surgical operation.
- The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
verb
- To take to task.
- To put into a chapter.
- To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
- To divide into chapters.
noun
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A chapter house
- A bishop's council.
- One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
noun
- A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
- A warrant.
- A certificate of qualification as a ship's master, pilot, or other crew member.
- A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
- A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
- A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
- A citation for a traffic violation.
- A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
- A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
- A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally technical support related).
- A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
verb
verb
- To assign to a particular task.
- To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /ˈdiːteɪl/)
- To explain in detail.
noun
- An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
- A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
- A person's name, address and other personal information.
- A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- A selected portion of a painting.
- A part small enough to escape casual notice.
- The small parts that can escape casual notice.
- A temporary unit or assignment.
- A profusion of details.
verb
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- be employed
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform as expected when applied
- shape, form, or improve a material
- give a workout to
- proceed along a path
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- move in an agitated manner
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- cause to work
- prepare for crops
- behave in a certain way when handled
- have and exert influence or effect
- operate in or through
- cause to operate or function
- provoke or excite
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- make something, usually for a specific function
- move into or onto
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- cause to undergo fermentation
- go sour or spoil
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
noun
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- the occupation for which you are paid
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- a place where work is done
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
noun
- A task.
- A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- A sex act.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
- Plastic surgery.
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
verb
- To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
- To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
- To work as a jobber.
- To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- To take the loss.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
verb
noun
- One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
- A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
- A course or way which is traveled or passed.
- One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
- A race longer than one mile.
- A road or path; often specifically a highway.
- A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
verb
noun
- A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
- Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
- A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
- A formal statement of doctrine.
- A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
- A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
verb
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- 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 defeat a contract.
- 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 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.
adj
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in a certain style.
- Ready, prepared.
- Rigid, solidified.
- Prearranged.
- Fixed in position.
- Intent, determined (to do something).
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.
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