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noun
- a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
- a prominent attribute or aspect of something
- the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2
- any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
adj
noun
- a quality that differentiates between similar things
- the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx
- a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves
adj
noun
- A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
- The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.
- Unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem.
- A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
- The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
verb
noun
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
- An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.
- The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
- A variable that describes some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
- The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
- An actual value given to such a formal parameter.
- A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm.
- A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
- Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
- In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
noun
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- The children's game of tag.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- Form; standard of performance.
verb
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To concern, to have to do with.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To consume, or otherwise use.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- To come close to; to approach.
noun
- A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
adj
verb
noun
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- The details; particulars.
- A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
- Specification
adj
- of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
- similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- Hyponyms: monospecific, multispecific, oligospecific, paucispecific
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
- pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- special, distinctive or unique.
- being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
- explicit or definite.
noun
- A particular instance of identifying something.
- The combination of identifying (which one, which thing) and validating the identity (proving or confirming it); identifying and authenticating viewed as a unitary concept in cognition.
- A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding, or belonging towards somebody or something.
- A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.
- The act of identifying (i.e., which one, which thing).
- The state of being identified.
noun
- an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
- a degree or grade of excellence or worth
- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- high social status
adj
noun
- the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized
- a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe
- the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.
- the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions
- a particular type of thing
adj
- characterized by good substantial quality
- of one substance or character throughout
- uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks
- providing abundant nourishment
- of good quality and condition; solidly built
- not soft or yielding to pressure
- having length, breadth and thickness
- impenetrable for the eye
- financially dependable
- of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial
- meriting respect or esteem
- of the same color throughout
- acting together as a single undiversified whole
noun
- matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure
- the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape
- a three-dimensional object, structurally rigid, usually resistant to changes of shape or volume
adj
noun
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- A descriptive linguistic survey.
- A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
- A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
- The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
noun
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- noticeable heterogeneity
- (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics
- a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances
- a difference that is usually pleasant
noun
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- a perceptual structure
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- a printed document with spaces in which to write
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
- a particular mode in which something is manifested
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
- a body of students who are taught together
- an ability to perform well
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- a mold for setting concrete
verb
noun
- a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
- a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
- the region above the ground
- a slight wind (usually refreshing)
- the mass of air surrounding the Earth
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour blood
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- medium for radio and television broadcasting
- travel via aircraft
verb
noun
- The characteristic quality of something.
- One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
- A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
- The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
- A kind or type.
verb
noun
- a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
- a particular environment or surrounding influence
- a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
- the mass of air surrounding the Earth
- the weather or climate at some place
- the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body
noun
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
- a state of depression or agitation
- the territory occupied by a nation
verb
verb
- To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
- To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
- To read with an electronic device.
- To look about for; to look over quickly.
- To conform to a metrical structure.
- To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
- To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
- To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
noun
noun
- Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
- The start/finish line.
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
verb
noun
- a prominent attribute or aspect of something
- the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin
- the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater
- a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine
- (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind
- an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles
verb
noun
- A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.
- Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
- A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
- A being involved in the action of a story.
- A person or individual, especially one who is unknown.
- Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
- One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
- A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.
- A written or printed symbol, or letter.
- A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
verb
- consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
- be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning
- give careful consideration to
- be a student of a certain subject
- learn by reading books
- think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
noun
- a detailed critical inspection
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- a written document describing the findings of some individual or group
- a state of deep mental absorption
- a room used for reading and writing and studying
- a branch of knowledge
- preliminary drawing for later elaboration
- attentive consideration and meditation
- someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play)
- a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique
verb
- consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
- get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
noun
- the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account
- an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
- a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- a tent made of canvas fabric
- an oil painting on canvas fabric
- the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
- a heavy, closely woven fabric
noun
- A set of qualities that make something distinctive or interesting.
- Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks.
- That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons
- A celebrity, especially one with a strong media presence.
- A set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.
- An assumed role or manner of behavior.
- Charisma, or qualities that make a person stand out from the crowd.
noun
- anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
- a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
- a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through
- picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
- a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
verb
verb
- To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
- To certify or license someone for something.
- To throw and catch each object at least twice.
- To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
- To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
- To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
- To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
noun
noun
- The ability to distinguish between things.
- The condition of understanding.
- The act of distinguishing between things.
- Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
- The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
- Perceptiveness.
- Discretion in judging objectively.
- The ability to perceive differences that exist.
- The ability to distinguish; judgement.
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noun
verb
- to measure up to in kind or quality
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- come to pass; arrive, as in due course
- reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position
- to be the product or result
- be found or available
- come forth
- be a native of
- extend or reach
- exist or occur in a certain point in a series
- cover a certain distance
- come under, be classified or included
- happen as a result
- add up in number or quantity
- be received
- come to one's mind; suggest itself
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- proceed or get along
- experience orgasm
- have a certain priority
noun
noun
- A quality or characteristic tinge.
- A pleasant taste.
- Enjoyment; pleasure.
- A taste (for); liking (of); fondness.
- A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.
- In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.
- Something that is greatly liked or savoured.
verb
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