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prefix
prefix
- around, surrounding
- avoiding or avoidant
- beside, alongside
- near
- abnormal
- resembling
- false
- In isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in opposite (1,4) positions (compare ortho- and meta-)
- disability sport
- adjacent, next to
- unrecognized, unauthorized, or unsanctioned
- across, through, throughout
- parachute.
- incorrect
- above, over
- between
- beyond
- opposite of, on the far side of
- related or pertaining to
- affecting or concerning lower body
prefix
prefix
- Around; about.
- About, regarding, concerning, over.
- By, near, next to, around, close to.
- On, upon, at, to, in contact with something.
- Forming verbs derived from nouns or adjectives, usually with the sense of "to make, become, or cause to be".
- Off, away, over, across
- As an intensifier; i.e. thoroughly, excessively; completely; utterly.
- All around; about; abundantly; all over.
conj
verb
- To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
- To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
- To come into gear with.
- To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
- To draw into conversation.
- To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
- To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
- To guarantee or promise (to do something).
- To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
- To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
- To enter into battle.
verb
- To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- To suffice.
- To finish.
- To fare, perform (well or poorly).
- To have (as an effect).
- To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
- A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- To take drugs.
- To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- To be reasonable or acceptable.
- To have sex with. (See also do it)
- To have as one's job.
- To cook.
- To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- To punish for a misdemeanor.
- To make or provide.
- A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
- To treat in a certain way.
- To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- Let’s do New York also.
- To kill.
- To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
- To impersonate or depict.
- To injure (one's own body part).
- To perform; to execute.
- To cheat or swindle.
noun
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
- A homicide.
- A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.
- Something that can or should be done.
num
verb
- To surround.
- To travel around along a curved path.
- To travel in circles.
- To place or mark a circle around.
noun
- An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.
- A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.
- A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
- A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.
- A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
- A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
- A territorial division or district.
- Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
- Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
- A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
- A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
- A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
- The orbit of an astronomical body.
- A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship.
- A traffic circle or roundabout.
verb
verb
- To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
- To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
- To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
- To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
- To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
- To produce, as an effect; to cause.
- To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
verb
- be around, often idly or without specific purpose
- be in a position in which one's upper body is largely upright and supported by one's backside
- take a seat
- be in session
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
- be located or situated somewhere
- work or act as a baby-sitter
- show to a seat; assign a seat for
- serve in a specific professional capacity
verb
- To work at (something) diligently.
- To press upon; to urge persistently.
- To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
- To travel over (a route) regularly.
- To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
- To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
noun
adj
- Busy or employed.
- Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- Greatly interested.
- attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- being attacked or attacking
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”)
- in contact and in operation
adv
- So as to surround or be near.
- Used with verbs to indicate repeated or continuous action, or in numerous locations or with numerous people.
- So as to partially or completely rotate; so as to face in the opposite direction.
- From place to place.
- From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement.
- Nearly; approximately; about.
- So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof.
- Used with certain verbs to suggest unproductive activity.
prep
- Centred upon; surrounding.
- Forming a circle or closed curve containing (something).
- At or to various places within.
- Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point.
- Near; in the vicinity of.
- Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve.
adj
verb
- To work persistently or laboriously; be occupied in working (e.g. in the earth, rake among dirt, etc.).
- To knead dough; stir dough previously kneaded to a proper consistency before baking.
- To meddle; interfere.
- To begrime; soil with mud; daub; smear.
- To become soft; become moist, as damp earth.
- To injure (anything) by rough handling; handle roughly.
noun
- your occupation or line of work
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- an amusement or pastime
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- frivolous or trifling behavior
adj
verb
noun
- The ground plan of a work or works.
- The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- A residue of some substance or material.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- A very small amount.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
verb
- To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
noun
- The place where one is employed.
- 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.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
verb
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
- 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 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.
verb
- To cover or surround.
- She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical.
- To sunbathe.
- To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
- To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath.
- To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid.
- To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.
noun
verb
- To enclose or surround.
- To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- To telephone (someone).
- To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- to resound, reverberate, echo.
- Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
- To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- To produce music with bells.
- To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- To rise in the air spirally.
noun
- A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- A pleasant or correct sound.
- An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- A telephone call.
- A burner on a kitchen stove.
- An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
verb
- To perform a process; to do some work.
- 2006, Rebecca Jordan and Kirsty Weir, In Good Company: The essential business start-up guide for women, A & C Black, page 229
- 2010, Robert Mnookin, Bargaining with the Devil: When the Negotiate, When to Fight, Simon & Schuster, page 32-33
- 2009, Nick Gifford, Information Security: Managing the Legal Risks, CCH Australia
- 2008, Brad Thor, The Last Patriot, Atria Books
adj
verb
- To make use of; to employ.
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
- To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To repeat an activity in this way.
verb
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change place or direction
- move very slightly
- move from one setting or context to another
- change in quality
- 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
verb
- To work as a jobber.
- 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 do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- To take the loss.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
noun
- 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 task.
- A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
- Plastic surgery.
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
verb
- move around
- transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- move from one place to another
- lift and reset in another soil or situation
- cause to change ownership
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- send from one person or place to another
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- transfer from one place or period to another
noun
- the act of moving something from one location to another
- someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another
- the act of transferring something from one form to another
- a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances
- application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
- transferring ownership
verb
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
- To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
noun
verb
- To center (around).
- To move in a circle.
- To circle or revolve around another object or position.
- To place an object (e.g. a satellite) into an orbit around a planet.
- To move around the general vicinity of something.
- To continue to follow and/or engage with someone via social media after breaking up with them.
noun
- A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
- A path for the ball on the outer edge of the playfield, usually connected so that the ball entering in one end will come out of the other.
- The subset of elements of a set X to which a given element can be moved by members of a specified group of transformations that act on X.
- A state of increased excitement, activity, or anger.
- A sphere of influence; an area or extent of activity, interest, or control.
- The path of an electron around an atomic nucleus.
- One complete circuit round an orbited body.
- The state of moving in an orbit.
- The area around the eye of a bird or other animal.
- The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.
verb
noun
- the soft brown fur of the beaver
- a full beard
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
- a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
- a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
- large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
verb
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- set in motion, cause to start
- depart for someplace
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- bring into being
- get off the ground
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- get going or set in motion
- begin or set in motion
- play in the starting lineup
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- bulge outward
noun
- the beginning of anything
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
verb
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- pursue or resume
- adopt
- turn one's interest to
- take up time or space
- take up and practice as one's own
- occupy or take on
- take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- accept
- take in, also metaphorically
- take up as if with a sponge
- return to a previous location or condition
verb
- To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To con, swindle, or deceive; especially financially.
- To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To rush or hurry.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- To work.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
noun
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