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verb
- To work at a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire is made.
- To stop up or fill (a physical gap or hole, or a hiatus).
- To use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained.
noun
- A person appointed or hired to fill a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire can be made; a temp.
- 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 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.
adj
verb
- To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
- To climb after a lead climber.
- To assist or support; to back.
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under [[#Etymology 3]] for translations.)
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.)
- To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
adv
adj
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
noun
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- An additional helping of food.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A second-class honours degree.
- One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- Second base.
- A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- The second gear of an engine.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
verb
- To work at any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- To play (a musical instrument) at a gig.
- To catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.
- Sometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).
- To spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.
- To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.
- To make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.
- To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
noun
- Any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
- Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.
- A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).
- Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.
- A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.
- A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
noun
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- Something added to fill a gap.
- A substitution.
- An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
verb
- To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- 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 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
verb
- To shift from hiring permanent employees to hiring temporary workers, especially those hired on a per-project basis (and thereby avoiding the need to provide legally mandated employee benefits).
- To represent, model or formalize an agreement, intent or understanding within a legal framework or contract
- To switch from providing public services by the government to contracting service providers in the private sector.
noun
- I'm going to take a brief time-out from this job.
- A short break in the action of a sport, for substitution, consultation, etc.
- The abortion of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally.
- A break from a tense, heated or stressful situation (often enforced, sometimes as a disciplinary measure); a cooling-off period.
noun
- The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
- A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
- A deed (legal contract).
- A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
- a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
- A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
- A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
verb
- To grant or establish a charter.
- To lease or hire something by charter.
- (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.
adj
verb
- be employed
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- 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
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- 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)
verb
verb
- To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out).
- To undergo a reduction in number.
- To grind or wear down through friction.
noun
- A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through retirement, resignation, or death.
- Grinding down or wearing away by friction.
- Imperfect contrition or remorse.
- The gradual reduction in a tangible or intangible resource due to causes that are passive and do not involve productive use of the resource.
- The loss of participants during an experiment.
- The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.
- The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language.
verb
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- be an understudy or alternate for a role
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- do something in turns
adj
- every second one of a series
- serving or used in place of another
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other
adj
noun
noun
- A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
- The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
- A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
- The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
- Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
- The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
- The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
- The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
- A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.
- A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
- By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
- The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
- A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
- Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
- That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
- The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
noun
- A post of employment; a job.
- A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A situation suitable to perform some action.
- The order in which players are seated around the table.
- A status or rank.
- A place or location.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A posture.
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
verb
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- To purpose, intend, plan.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To remember.
- To be careful about.
- To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
noun
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- Attention, consideration or thought.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
verb
- To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
- To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.
- To take an oath that an assertion is true.
- To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
- To administer an oath to (a person).
- To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
noun
adj
noun
- A position of employment; a post.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- An outfit, garment, or look.
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- An individual movie theater.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
verb
- To have as one's job.
- 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 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
noun
- A temporary posting of a person to a particular workplace to enable them to gain work experience.
- The zodiacal region of the sky in which the sun, moon, or a planet appears at the time and place of a person's birth.
- The act of matching a person with a job
- The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
- A location or position.
noun
- An unoccupied employment position.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The initial period when a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- A time available in a schedule.
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- An act or instance of beginning.
- The first few moves in a game.
adj
noun
- an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
- spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
- a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
- a swimmer who floats in the water
- an object that floats or is capable of floating
- an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
noun
- A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- A cry or shout.
- A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- Need; necessity.
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A decision or judgement.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- The act of calling to the other batsman.
verb
- To require, demand.
- To scold.
- To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- To request, summon, or beckon.
- To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- To predict.
- To contact by telephone.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- To name or refer to.
- To cry or shout.
- To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- To stop at a station or port.
- To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- To declare in advance.
- To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- To demand repayment of a loan.
- To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
noun
noun
- A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.
- A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program or residency.
- A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
- A merit-based scholarship.
- A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
- A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
- An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.
verb
- To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
- To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
noun
- A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
- A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
- The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
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