English words for 'Uttered after acquiring new knowledge.'
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adj
- having or showing profound knowledge
- highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
- established by conditioning or learning
- Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
- Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
- Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
- (law, formal) A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
verb
noun
- having knowledge of
- an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation
- (politics) Acute awareness (of something) and belief in its communal relevance.
- (uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
- The state or trait of having cognition and sensation; cognition and sensation themselves.
- The fact of having knowledge of a particular fact or matter; cognizance.
- (countable) A being with cognition.
verb
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- (specifically) To test someone's patience.
- To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
- To put to test.
- (law) To put on trial.
- To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
- (with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want, to desire.
- (figuratively, chiefly used in the imperative) To receive an imminent attack; to take.
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- To taste, sample, etc.
- (euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
- examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
- put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice
- take a sample of
- give pain or trouble to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- test the limits of
- make an effort or attempt
- put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
noun
- (programming) A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.
- (American football) A field goal or extra point
- (rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
- An attempt.
- An act of tasting or sampling.
- (chess) A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
- earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
noun
- the gradual process of acquiring knowledge
- knowledge acquired by learning and instruction
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)
- (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
- (uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
noun
- (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
- (countable) An activity one has performed.
- (usually uncountable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
- (corporate) A business offering in which a major focus is the way that the customer interacts with the business throughout the transaction, as opposed to only its outcome (the product or service).
- The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
- (gaming, originally roleplaying games) Synonym of experience points
- the content of direct observation or participation in an event
- an event as apprehended
- the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities
verb
- (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
- undergo
- undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
noun
verb
- To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
- To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- To attend a course or other educational activity.
- (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) To teach.
- To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
- To study.
- commit to memory; learn by heart
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- be a student of a certain subject
- gain knowledge or skills
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- impart skills or knowledge to
noun
- Something learned or to be learned.
- (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
- Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
- A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
- A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
- A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
- punishment intended as a warning to others
- a unit of instruction
- the significance of a story or event
- a task assigned for individual study
verb
noun
- New information of interest.
- plural of new
- Information about current events disseminated by the media.
- (Internet) Messages posted on newsgroups.
- a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary
- informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone
- information about recent and important events
- information reported in a newspaper or news magazine
- the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins
noun
adj
verb
noun
- accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
- ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
- the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
- the quality of being prudent and sensible
- (rare) A group of owls.
- The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
- (uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
- (theology) The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
- The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
- (countable, colloquial) Ellipsis of wisdom tooth.
- (rare) A group of wombats.
- (countable) A piece of wise advice.
- The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
noun
particle
verb
- (transitive, philosophy) To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.
- To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
- (transitive) To experience.
- (transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
- (transitive) To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
- (transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
- (transitive) To have indexed and have information about within one's database.
- (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
- (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
- (transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
- (intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
- (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
- know how to do or perform something
- be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
- perceive as familiar
- know the nature or character of
- accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept their power and authority
- have sexual intercourse with
- have fixed in the mind
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- be able to distinguish, recognize as being different
- be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object
noun
- An act of figuring out or becoming aware.
- The act of making real.
- The result of an artistic effort.
- The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.
- coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
- making real or giving the appearance of reality
- the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer
- something that is made real or concrete
- a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained
- a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
noun
- (informal, idiomatic) A startling or shocking revelation.
- (informal, euphemistic) A strong alcoholic beverage, especially one consumed in the morning.
- (informal) Something that provides a sudden insight, or makes something clear that was previously mysterious.
- (literally) Something that causes the eyes to open, or that opens the eyes.
- (informal, sometimes objectifying) An attractive woman.
noun
- The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
- The act or process of acquiring.
- (computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.
- something acquired
- the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something
- the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge
- an ability that has been acquired by training
verb
- To process new information in one's mind.
- To refrain from expressing (a negative emotion), to one's psychological detriment; to bottle up.
- (finance) To transfer stocks between brokers within an organization, rather than through the exchange.
- (transitive, programming) To store (a string or other structure) in a shared pool, such that subsequent items with the same value can share the same instance.
- incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
adj
- Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent.
- Suggestive of private knowledge or understanding.
- Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning.
- Deliberate, wilful.
- highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
- evidencing the possession of inside information
- alert and fully informed
- characterized by conscious design or purpose
noun
prep
verb
noun
- The thing or things gained.
- (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
- (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
- the advantageous quality of being beneficial
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
- the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating
- a quantity that is added
adj
adv
verb
- (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
- (intransitive, often with on) To grow more likely to catch or overtake someone.
- (intransitive) To put on weight.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate.
- (transitive) To acquire possession of.
- (transitive) To reach.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- increase or develop
- obtain
- increase (one's body weight)
- win something through one's efforts
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- rise in rate or price
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- derive a benefit from
noun
- knowledge gained by perceiving
- a way of conceiving something
- the process of perceiving
- becoming aware of something via the senses
- the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept
- Conscious understanding of something.
- Acuity
- The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
- Vision (ability)
noun
- knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence
- a history of the ancient world
- A period of history generally seen as occurring before the Middle Ages, that is, before the fall of the Roman Empire. Includes Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
- (idiomatic) That which happened a long time ago and not worth discussing any more.
noun
- (uncountable) The discovering of new things.
- (law, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- (chess) A discovered attack.
- (law, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- Something discovered.
- the act of discovering something
- (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
- something that is discovered
- a productive insight
noun
- informing by words
- a request for payment
- an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative
- (countable, computing) A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.
- (countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.
- (uncountable) The act of notifying.
noun
adj
verb
adj
- as if new
- Ellipsis of mint condition: like new.
- (philately) Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
- (Northern England, especially Manchester, Geordie, slang) Very good, excellent.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Attractive; beautiful; handsome.
- (numismatics) In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
- Of a green color, like that of the mint plant.
noun
- the leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied
- any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers
- a plant where money is coined by authority of the government
- a candy that is flavored with a mint oil
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- any member of the mint family of plants
- A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
- (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
- (provincial, Northern England, Scotland) An intent, a purpose; an attempt, a try; an effort, an endeavor.
- The flavoring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
- A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
- A green color, like that of mint.
- (informal) A vast sum of money; (by extension) a large amount of something.
- Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
verb
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- (transitive) To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
- To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
- (transitive, cryptocurrencies) To create a crypto token.
- (intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.
- (transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.
- (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.
verb
- To become aware of or understand a fact or situation.
- (mathematics) To obtain an entity from (an abstract group or structure).
- To cause to seem real; to make realistic.
- (linguistics) To turn (an abstract linguistic object, especially a phoneme) into a speech sound actually used in a language.
- To convert an asset or property into a more easily usable form such as money.
- Chiefly in Baroque music: to play an accompaniment, harmonies, etc., based on (a figured bass).
- Of an asset or property: to generate (a specific amount of money or interest) when invested or sold.
- Followed by on or upon: to acquire money or a profit from the sale of an asset or property.
- To sense (something) strongly or vividly as if real.
- To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
- To arrange (a musical work written for a single performer) to be performed by an orchestra; to orchestrate.
- To cause (something) to seem real; to make realistic; specifically, to present (something) clearly to the mind, a person, (archaic) oneself, etc., so that it seems real.
- (reflexive) To achieve (one's) potential.
- To acquire (money, a profit, etc.) by selling an asset or property, through trade, etc.; also (followed by on), to make (money or a profit) on an investment, a venture, etc.
- To convert (an asset or property, especially investments such as bonds, shares, etc.) into a more easily usable form such as money, especially by selling the asset or property.
- (chiefly passive voice, slightly formal) To convert (something imaginary or planned, as a goal or idea) into reality; to bring into real existence, to make real.
- To complete (a musical work which is incomplete or not fully notated).
- convert into cash; of goods and property
- be fully aware or cognizant of
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
- make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
verb
- learn or discover with certainty
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- (transitive) To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
noun
- A discovery made; information.
- (rare) A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
- (finance) A declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.
- An act of pointing out or indicating.
- A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
- (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease that serves to direct to suitable remedies; the problem that warrants and prompts the use of a diagnostic test, imaging mode, or treatment (e.g., medication, surgical procedure).
- something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary
- (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure
- the act of indicating or pointing out by name
- something that serves to indicate or suggest
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
verb
noun
verb
- examine someone's knowledge of something
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
- show a certain characteristic when tested
- achieve a certain score or rating on a test
- undergo a test
- determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
- (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
- (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
- (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
- To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
- (intransitive, transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
- To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
- To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
noun
- any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc
- the act of testing something
- the act of undergoing testing
- a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge
- trying something to find out about it
- a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
- (botany) Testa; seed coat.
- (informal, slang, bodybuilding) Clipping of testosterone.
- (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
- A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
- (cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
- A challenge, trial.
- A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
verb
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To gain; to win.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- collect in one place
- conclude from evidence
- get people together
- look for (food) in nature
- draw and bring closer
- increase or develop
- draw together into folds or puckers
- increase in amount by collecting or gathering
- assemble or get together
noun
- (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
noun
- knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
- a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
- formal accusation of a crime
- (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome
- a message received and understood
- A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
- (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
- (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).
- Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.
- (computing, formally) The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
- (Christianity) Divine inspiration.
- Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
- (computing, data management) The output resulting from the systematic collection, manipulation and organization of raw data into a structured, interpretable format.
- (law, countable) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.
- The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
adj
- tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
- serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
- providing or conveying information
- Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.
- Of a standard or specification, not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Pertaining to an increase in clarity and understanding.
- Relating to upward movement; pertaining to the act of rising or ascending.
- (astronomy) Pertaining to right ascension and/or oblique ascension.
- Pertaining to an increase in status or power.
- Pertaining to progress or improvement.
- Pertaining to the achievement of a higher spiritual state.
- tending to rise
noun
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a short vivid experience
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a momentary brightness
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a gaudy outward display
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”).
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (telecommunications) Ellipsis of hook flash.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- A very short amount of time.
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
adj
verb
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- emit a brief burst of light
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To flash back.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To communicate quickly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
noun
- having knowledge of
- an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation
- (politics) Acute awareness (of something) and belief in its communal relevance.
- (uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
- The state or trait of having cognition and sensation; cognition and sensation themselves.
- The fact of having knowledge of a particular fact or matter; cognizance.
- (countable) A being with cognition.
noun
- the gradual process of acquiring knowledge
- knowledge acquired by learning and instruction
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)
- (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
- (uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
noun
- (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
- (countable) An activity one has performed.
- (usually uncountable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
- (corporate) A business offering in which a major focus is the way that the customer interacts with the business throughout the transaction, as opposed to only its outcome (the product or service).
- The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
- (gaming, originally roleplaying games) Synonym of experience points
- the content of direct observation or participation in an event
- an event as apprehended
- the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities
verb
- (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
- undergo
- undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
noun
verb
- To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
- To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- To attend a course or other educational activity.
- (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) To teach.
- To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
- To study.
- commit to memory; learn by heart
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- be a student of a certain subject
- gain knowledge or skills
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- impart skills or knowledge to
noun
- Something learned or to be learned.
- (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
- Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
- A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
- A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
- A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
- punishment intended as a warning to others
- a unit of instruction
- the significance of a story or event
- a task assigned for individual study
verb
noun
- New information of interest.
- plural of new
- Information about current events disseminated by the media.
- (Internet) Messages posted on newsgroups.
- a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary
- informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone
- information about recent and important events
- information reported in a newspaper or news magazine
- the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins
noun
adj
verb
noun
- accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
- ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
- the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
- the quality of being prudent and sensible
- (rare) A group of owls.
- The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
- (uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
- (theology) The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
- The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
- (countable, colloquial) Ellipsis of wisdom tooth.
- (rare) A group of wombats.
- (countable) A piece of wise advice.
- The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
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particle
verb
- (transitive, philosophy) To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.
- To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
- (transitive) To experience.
- (transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
- (transitive) To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
- (transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
- (transitive) To have indexed and have information about within one's database.
- (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
- (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
- (transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
- (intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
- (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
- know how to do or perform something
- be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
- perceive as familiar
- know the nature or character of
- accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept their power and authority
- have sexual intercourse with
- have fixed in the mind
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- be able to distinguish, recognize as being different
- be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object
noun
- An act of figuring out or becoming aware.
- The act of making real.
- The result of an artistic effort.
- The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.
- coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
- making real or giving the appearance of reality
- the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer
- something that is made real or concrete
- a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained
- a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
noun
- (informal, idiomatic) A startling or shocking revelation.
- (informal, euphemistic) A strong alcoholic beverage, especially one consumed in the morning.
- (informal) Something that provides a sudden insight, or makes something clear that was previously mysterious.
- (literally) Something that causes the eyes to open, or that opens the eyes.
- (informal, sometimes objectifying) An attractive woman.
noun
- The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
- The act or process of acquiring.
- (computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.
- something acquired
- the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something
- the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge
- an ability that has been acquired by training
noun
- The thing or things gained.
- (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
- (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
- the advantageous quality of being beneficial
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
- the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating
- a quantity that is added
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adv
verb
- (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
- (intransitive, often with on) To grow more likely to catch or overtake someone.
- (intransitive) To put on weight.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate.
- (transitive) To acquire possession of.
- (transitive) To reach.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- increase or develop
- obtain
- increase (one's body weight)
- win something through one's efforts
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- rise in rate or price
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- derive a benefit from
noun
- knowledge gained by perceiving
- a way of conceiving something
- the process of perceiving
- becoming aware of something via the senses
- the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept
- Conscious understanding of something.
- Acuity
- The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
- Vision (ability)
noun
- knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence
- a history of the ancient world
- A period of history generally seen as occurring before the Middle Ages, that is, before the fall of the Roman Empire. Includes Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
- (idiomatic) That which happened a long time ago and not worth discussing any more.
noun
- (uncountable) The discovering of new things.
- (law, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- (chess) A discovered attack.
- (law, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- Something discovered.
- the act of discovering something
- (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
- something that is discovered
- a productive insight
noun
- informing by words
- a request for payment
- an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative
- (countable, computing) A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.
- (countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.
- (uncountable) The act of notifying.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A discovery made; information.
- (rare) A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
- (finance) A declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.
- An act of pointing out or indicating.
- A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
- (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease that serves to direct to suitable remedies; the problem that warrants and prompts the use of a diagnostic test, imaging mode, or treatment (e.g., medication, surgical procedure).
- something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary
- (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure
- the act of indicating or pointing out by name
- something that serves to indicate or suggest
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
noun
- knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
- a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
- formal accusation of a crime
- (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome
- a message received and understood
- A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
- (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
- (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).
- Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.
- (computing, formally) The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
- (Christianity) Divine inspiration.
- Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
- (computing, data management) The output resulting from the systematic collection, manipulation and organization of raw data into a structured, interpretable format.
- (law, countable) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.
- The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
noun
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a short vivid experience
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a momentary brightness
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a gaudy outward display
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”).
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (telecommunications) Ellipsis of hook flash.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- A very short amount of time.
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
adj
verb
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- emit a brief burst of light
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To flash back.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To communicate quickly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
adj
- Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent.
- Suggestive of private knowledge or understanding.
- Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning.
- Deliberate, wilful.
- highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
- evidencing the possession of inside information
- alert and fully informed
- characterized by conscious design or purpose
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prep
verb
verb
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- (specifically) To test someone's patience.
- To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
- To put to test.
- (law) To put on trial.
- To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
- (with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want, to desire.
- (figuratively, chiefly used in the imperative) To receive an imminent attack; to take.
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- To taste, sample, etc.
- (euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
- examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
- put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice
- take a sample of
- give pain or trouble to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- test the limits of
- make an effort or attempt
- put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
noun
- (programming) A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.
- (American football) A field goal or extra point
- (rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
- An attempt.
- An act of tasting or sampling.
- (chess) A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
- earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
noun
verb
- To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
- To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- To attend a course or other educational activity.
- (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) To teach.
- To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
- To study.
- commit to memory; learn by heart
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- be a student of a certain subject
- gain knowledge or skills
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- impart skills or knowledge to
verb
- To process new information in one's mind.
- To refrain from expressing (a negative emotion), to one's psychological detriment; to bottle up.
- (finance) To transfer stocks between brokers within an organization, rather than through the exchange.
- (transitive, programming) To store (a string or other structure) in a shared pool, such that subsequent items with the same value can share the same instance.
- incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
verb
- To become aware of or understand a fact or situation.
- (mathematics) To obtain an entity from (an abstract group or structure).
- To cause to seem real; to make realistic.
- (linguistics) To turn (an abstract linguistic object, especially a phoneme) into a speech sound actually used in a language.
- To convert an asset or property into a more easily usable form such as money.
- Chiefly in Baroque music: to play an accompaniment, harmonies, etc., based on (a figured bass).
- Of an asset or property: to generate (a specific amount of money or interest) when invested or sold.
- Followed by on or upon: to acquire money or a profit from the sale of an asset or property.
- To sense (something) strongly or vividly as if real.
- To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
- To arrange (a musical work written for a single performer) to be performed by an orchestra; to orchestrate.
- To cause (something) to seem real; to make realistic; specifically, to present (something) clearly to the mind, a person, (archaic) oneself, etc., so that it seems real.
- (reflexive) To achieve (one's) potential.
- To acquire (money, a profit, etc.) by selling an asset or property, through trade, etc.; also (followed by on), to make (money or a profit) on an investment, a venture, etc.
- To convert (an asset or property, especially investments such as bonds, shares, etc.) into a more easily usable form such as money, especially by selling the asset or property.
- (chiefly passive voice, slightly formal) To convert (something imaginary or planned, as a goal or idea) into reality; to bring into real existence, to make real.
- To complete (a musical work which is incomplete or not fully notated).
- convert into cash; of goods and property
- be fully aware or cognizant of
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
- make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
verb
- learn or discover with certainty
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- (transitive) To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
verb
noun
verb
- examine someone's knowledge of something
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
- show a certain characteristic when tested
- achieve a certain score or rating on a test
- undergo a test
- determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
- (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
- (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
- (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
- To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
- (intransitive, transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
- To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
- To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
noun
- any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc
- the act of testing something
- the act of undergoing testing
- a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge
- trying something to find out about it
- a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
- (botany) Testa; seed coat.
- (informal, slang, bodybuilding) Clipping of testosterone.
- (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
- A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
- (cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
- A challenge, trial.
- A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
verb
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To gain; to win.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- collect in one place
- conclude from evidence
- get people together
- look for (food) in nature
- draw and bring closer
- increase or develop
- draw together into folds or puckers
- increase in amount by collecting or gathering
- assemble or get together
noun
- (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
adj
- having or showing profound knowledge
- highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
- established by conditioning or learning
- Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
- Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
- Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
- (law, formal) A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
verb
adj
- Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent.
- Suggestive of private knowledge or understanding.
- Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning.
- Deliberate, wilful.
- highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
- evidencing the possession of inside information
- alert and fully informed
- characterized by conscious design or purpose
noun
prep
verb
adj
- as if new
- Ellipsis of mint condition: like new.
- (philately) Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
- (Northern England, especially Manchester, Geordie, slang) Very good, excellent.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Attractive; beautiful; handsome.
- (numismatics) In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
- Of a green color, like that of the mint plant.
noun
- the leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied
- any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers
- a plant where money is coined by authority of the government
- a candy that is flavored with a mint oil
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- any member of the mint family of plants
- A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
- (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
- (provincial, Northern England, Scotland) An intent, a purpose; an attempt, a try; an effort, an endeavor.
- The flavoring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
- A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
- A green color, like that of mint.
- (informal) A vast sum of money; (by extension) a large amount of something.
- Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
verb
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- (transitive) To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
- To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
- (transitive, cryptocurrencies) To create a crypto token.
- (intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.
- (transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.
- (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.
adj
- tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
- serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
- providing or conveying information
- Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.
- Of a standard or specification, not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Pertaining to an increase in clarity and understanding.
- Relating to upward movement; pertaining to the act of rising or ascending.
- (astronomy) Pertaining to right ascension and/or oblique ascension.
- Pertaining to an increase in status or power.
- Pertaining to progress or improvement.
- Pertaining to the achievement of a higher spiritual state.
- tending to rise