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plant a seed
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verb
- To use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained.
- To stop up or fill (a physical gap or hole, or a hiatus).
- To work at a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire is made.
noun
- A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.
- That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
- Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler.
- A person appointed or hired to fill a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire can be made; a temp.
adj
noun
- An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A try, an attempt.
- The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- A hacking blow.
- An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- A hearse.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A dry cough.
- A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A tool for chopping.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
- A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- An untalented writer.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- A grating in a mill race.
- Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- A political agitator.
verb
- To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- To kick (a player) on the shins.
- To swing at a pitched ball.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To play hackeysack.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- To cough noisily.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
verb
- To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
- 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 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 effect by gradual degrees.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- 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 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 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 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 make a set of changes permanent.
- To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
- To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
- To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
- To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
noun
noun
- A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
- The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
- An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
- An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
- The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
- The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
- The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
noun
- The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration
- The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim
- The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
- The action of adjusting something
- The settling or balancing of a financial account
verb
- To retroactively supply to (a previous version of a software product) a fix, or a new feature, at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.
- To retroactively supply (a fix or a new feature) to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.
- To re-release software on its original or a previous platform with new features, after its release on a different platform.
noun
noun
verb
- To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better
- To form again or in a new configuration.
- to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals; to reform a criminal
- To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits
verb
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- Used to emphasise a proposition.
- To date frequently.
- To be the setting or time of.
- To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- To reference or to study for further details.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- To understand.
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To wait upon; attend, escort.
- To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
intj
noun
noun
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
- A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
verb
- To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
noun
- A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows a user to continue working until a better solution can be provided.
- An impromptu and temporary response to an unforeseen problem or risk.
- A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of constraints, or laws or regulations.
proverb
- Commenting that a seemingly unfortunate or unfavourable situation or change may be beneficial later or in the long run.
- The way God guides us in and through our lives may seem illogical and beyond our understanding, but at the end it ultimately leads us to what our hearts truly desire.
- Expressing confidence that a conundrum has a solution despite it not being apparent.
verb
- To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
- To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
- To plan; to expect; to think.
- To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
- To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
noun
- A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.
- A version of something which is newer than other versions.
- An additional piece of information. An addition to existing information.
- A change in information, a modification of existing or known data.
- An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known.
verb
verb
- To alter slightly.
- To shield (someone or something) from light.
- To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.
- To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
- To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
- To darken, particularly in drawing.
- To surpass by a narrow margin.
- To throw shade, to subtly insult someone.
- To shield oneself from light.
noun
- Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
- A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
- An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
- A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
- A ghost or specter; a spirit.
- A subtle variation in a concept.
- A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
- Subtle insults.
- A candle-shade.
- A cover around or above a light bulb, a lampshade.
- Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
verb
- To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
- To give legal status to by making an official public record.
- To make a record of information.
- To make an audio or video recording of.
- To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
noun
- The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.
- A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
- An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
- A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data.
- Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
adj
noun
- The degree to which a process adapts to changing data or requirements.
- The quality of being impermanent and changing.
- The quality of being exciting and powerful.
- The belief that reality is a dynamic, changing process rather than a set of static facts or deterministic chains of causality.
- A cognitive model that sees cognition as a complex dynamic interaction between the agent and its environment.
verb
- To remedy or rectify something.
- To remember or recall something.
- To regain or get back something.
- To fetch and bring in game.
- To salvage something
- To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
- To fetch and bring in game systematically.
- To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
- To rescue (a creature).
- To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
noun
verb
- To make firm or permanent; to fix.
- To print from a stereotype.
- To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
- To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
noun
- A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
- A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
- An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
- A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
verb
- To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
- To move quickly from one location to another.
- To move about rapidly and nimbly.
- To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
- To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
- To move a tethered animal to a new, grazing location.
noun
adj
verb
noun
verb
- To progress or change a little bit or in small increments.
- To move in a small or restricted space; squirm or squeeze.
- To quietly force to move without drama or noticeable disruption.
- To exceed a limit by a small amount.
- To move or slide a small amount; scoot; scooch.
- To cry out in pain or discomfort.
- To work toward a goal by using small low-risk steps.
- To propel a boat or sailboard by rocking one's body back and forth.
noun
- An act of forcing the boat forward by rocking one's body.
- A small, low-risk step toward a goal.
- Something that causes pain or discomfort.
- A small amount by which something has moved or changed.
intj
noun
- An improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices, etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social, political or religious affairs or in the conduct of persons or operation of organizations.
- Change or correction, by a court in equity, to a written instrument to conform to the original intention of the parties.
noun
- A slight adjustment or modification.
- A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
- An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.
- Trouble; distress; tweag.
verb
- To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
- To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse.
- To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
- To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
- To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).
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