benchmark
accepted pairing
productization
substitute
tart up
white-label
commoditize
improve on
contemporize
reverse palming off
pound the table
step up one's game
exploit
work
disrupt
co-branding
shape up
skimpflation
upgrade
intromit
rine
improver
cannibalise
embrace, extend and extinguish
improvement
convert
sidegrade
comparative advantage
trade down
Taguchi method
quality requirement
keep up with the Joneses
individualize
qualify
gild the lily
parlay
taint
add value
have one's way
product development
subtlety
migrate
lift one's game
packaging
repurpose
put lipstick on a pig
mod
trademark
developer
agree
market
commercialize
commodify
pretense
revaluate
usedness
self-advancement
shift
distribution channel
channel
monkey-branch
play
produce
ameliorant
expansion
avail
test-drive
pull up
knockoff
make hay
overachieve
modifiableness
enchant
instrument
consumerize
commodity
enjoy
underprice
commoditise
tailor
bring to bear
zhoosh
poach
market penetration
vitiate
refine
alloy
admixture
make something of
well-adapted
trade secret
epeen
all is fish that comes to the net
spec up
proxy fight
good
well-adapted
accepted pairing
productization
substitute
reverse palming off
co-branding
skimpflation
improver
improvement
comparative advantage
Taguchi method
quality requirement
product development
subtlety
packaging
developer
pretense
usedness
self-advancement
distribution channel
channel
ameliorant
upgrade
expansion
knockoff
modifiableness
instrument
commodity
market penetration
alloy
admixture
trade secret
epeen
proxy fight
benchmark
tart up
white-label
commoditize
improve on
contemporize
pound the table
step up one's game
exploit
work
disrupt
shape up
upgrade
intromit
rine
cannibalise
convert
sidegrade
trade down
keep up with the Joneses
individualize
qualify
gild the lily
parlay
taint
add value
have one's way
migrate
lift one's game
repurpose
put lipstick on a pig
mod
trademark
agree
market
commercialize
commodify
revaluate
shift
monkey-branch
play
produce
avail
test-drive
pull up
make hay
overachieve
enchant
consumerize
enjoy
underprice
commoditise
tailor
bring to bear
zhoosh
poach
vitiate
refine
make something of
spec up
good
verb
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- 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 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 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
- To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components
- To replace with something better.
- To improve the equipment or furnishings of or services rendered to
- To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher version number or marketed under a more recent product name.
- To improve in condition or status.
noun
- An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology
- An upward grade or slope.
- An improvement
adv
noun
- Something which is improved
- Increase; growth; progress; advance.
- The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
- Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
- A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
- The state of being improved; betterment; advance
- The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
verb
- To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
- To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
- To score a spare.
- To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
- To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- To become converted.
- To score (especially a penalty kick).
- To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
- To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
- To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- To exchange for something of equal value.
noun
verb
- To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
- To certify or license someone for something.
- To throw and catch each object at least twice.
- To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
- To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
- To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
- To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
noun
verb
- To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- To spoil (food) by contamination.
- To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
noun
- A tinge, trace or touch.
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
- A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- The perineum.
noun
- The quality of being able to achieve one's aims through clever, delicate or indirect methods.
- The quality of being done in a clever way that is not obvious or not direct; the quality of being carefully thought out.
- The quality of being able to notice or understand things that are not obvious.
- An instance of being subtle, a subtle thing, especially a subtle argument or distinction.
- The quality of being scarcely noticeable or difficult to discern.
- An ornate medieval illusion dish or table decoration, especially when made from one thing but crafted to look like another.
verb
- To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another.
- To change one's geographic pattern of habitation.
- To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.
- To move slowly towards, usually in groups.
- To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.
- To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.
verb
- To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically for the purposes of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.
- To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.
- To install or create a mod.
noun
- A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
- A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
- A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.
- An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
- An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
- A moderately difficult route.
- Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
- A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.
- A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber.
- A film developer; a person who uses chemicals to create photographs from photograph negatives.
- A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software.
- A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.
- A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos.
verb
- To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
- To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
- To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
- To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
- To give assent; to accede
- To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
- To yield assent to; to approve.
- To resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
verb
- To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- To sell.
- To shop in a market; to attend a market.
- To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
noun
- A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
- A grocery store
- A group of potential customers for one's product.
- A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
- City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
- A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
- The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
verb
- to exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality.
- to bring into commerce from an earlier condition (such as idea alone, experimental prototypes alone, or one-off custom builds only).
- to apply business methodology to something in order to profit (such as introducing salability to a resource that comes from, or rightfully belongs to, the commons).
verb
- change in quality
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change place or direction
- move around
- move very slightly
- move from one setting or context to another
- move and exchange for another
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- move abruptly
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- change gears
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
noun
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a qualitative change
- the time period during which you are at work
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- the act of moving from one place to another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
noun
- a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
- a path over which electrical signals can pass
- a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- a television station and its programs
verb
verb
- use to one's advantage
- participate in games or sport
- act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome
- play on an instrument
- play a role or part
- be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children
- replay (as a melody)
- perform music on (a musical instrument)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- bet or wager (money)
- engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
- emit recorded sound
- perform on a certain location
- put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
- behave in a certain way
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- consider not very seriously
- be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space
- perform on a stage or theater
- be performed or presented for public viewing
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream
- make bets
- stake on the outcome of an issue
- shoot or hit in a particular manner
- use or move
- employ in a game or in a specific position
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- exhaust by allowing to pull on the line
noun
- a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- a theatrical performance of a drama
- a preset plan of action in team sports
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- a state in which action is feasible
- utilization or exercise
- an attempt to get something
- activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
- (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- the removal of constraints
- a weak and tremulous light
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- movement or space for movement
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
verb
- To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.
- To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
- To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
- To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
- To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
noun
noun
- A product to be used with a previous product.
- A new addition.
- That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
- The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
- The replacement of a short name (e.g., acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, abbreviation) with the longer name that is synonymous with it, as when spelling out acronyms to ensure clarity for a general audience.
- The string of text thus substituted.
- An act, process, or instance of expanding.
- The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
verb
- To turn to the advantage of.
- To provide; to make available; to use or take advantage of (an opportunity or available resource).
- To promote; to assist.
- To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
- To be of service to.
noun
verb
- To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
- To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
- To raise the nose of an aircraft.
- To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
- To fetch for display on a screen.
- To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
- To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
- To cause (a person) to stop.
- To lift upwards or vertically.
- To pull forward.
- To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.
noun
- A means or agency for achieving an effect.
- A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
- A device used to produce music.
- A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
- A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
- A measuring or displaying device.
verb
noun
- Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
- Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.
- Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin, as distinguished from branded products.
- Anything which has both a use-value and an exchange-value.
- Something useful or valuable.
verb
- To tweak, finesse or improve (something); to make more appealing or exciting. Usually with up.
- To blend ingredients together using an electric food mixer.
noun
- style, glamor (especially in regard to clothing).
- The action of mixing ingredients using an electric food mixer; a pulse of mixing.
adj
verb
- To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- To take game or fish illegally.
- To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
- To cook something in simmering liquid.
- To be cooked in simmering liquid
- To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
- To make soft or muddy by trampling.
- To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
noun
verb
- To make improvements or repairs.
- To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
- To benefit; gain.
- To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
- To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
- To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
- To make good; turn to good; improve.
adv
noun
- The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
- An item of merchandise.
- A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
intj
adj
- Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
- True, valid, of explanatory strength.
- Beneficial; worthwhile.
- Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
- Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
- Reasonable in amount.
- Accepting of, OK with
- Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
- Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
- Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
- Effective.
- Favourable.
- Unblemished; honourable.
- Very, extremely. See good and.
- Large in amount or size.
- Full; entire; at least as much as.
- Ready
- Healthful.
- Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
- Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
- Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
- Having a particularly pleasant taste.
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- Competent or talented.
- Holy (especially when capitalized) .
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