coign of vantage
project
propose
discerning
ultracrepidarian
statement
deem
walk the line
critiquability
spin
pose
appreciation
admiration
bully pulpit
take aim
broad shoulders
opinionativeness
tract
pundit
sensibleness
opinionatively
expertize
judge
synesis
opinionation
judiciousness
wisely
mind
observe
reckoning
criticism
commentatorially
critically
well-grounded
criticize
criticise
verdict
representation
fair game
metacritique
put
moral high ground
wash
moral low ground
wobble
sight
look on the bright side
feeling
directed
decision
opinion former
referendum
determination
conclusion
opinion leader
critical
in
leh
complexion
concentrate
rant
pass
interpretativeness
critiquer
academy
wise
underpoint
critique
injudiciousness
metacommentary
commentate
overlook
animadversion
opining
indiscreetness
doxy
point of view
narrowness
accept
controversiality
indictment
reproach
commentator
observer
sifflicate
get down
exception
position
narrow-mindedness
draw
counsel
speculativeness
take
upbraid
what, me worry
exchange
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critical
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wise
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critically
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deem
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spin
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admiration
bully pulpit
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synesis
opinionation
judiciousness
mind
reckoning
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concentrate
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verb
- present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.
- communicate vividly
- extend out or project in space
- transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another
- project on a screen
- cause to be heard
- draw a projection of
- make or work out a plan for; devise
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- put or send forth
- throw, send, or cast forward
- regard as objective
noun
verb
- To maintain an intermediate position between contrasting choices, opinions, etc.
- To act in a non destructive or damaging manner, whether physically or mentally to those you hold dear and/or respect. To exercise self-control.
- To participate in the procession at a graduation ceremony; to graduate.
- To mark or secure a boundary by walking along it.
noun
- A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- Special interest of an autistic person.
- Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- Rapid circular motion.
- A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
- A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
- A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
- An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
- A single play of a record by a radio station.
verb
- To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- To search rapidly.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- To move sideways when bouncing.
- To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To move swiftly.
- To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
verb
- To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
- To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
- To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.
- To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.
- To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration.
- To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
noun
noun
- A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
- Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
- A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
- An area or expanse.
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
noun
- An expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic.
- A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders.
- A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar.
verb
- To form an opinion on; to appraise.
- To form an opinion; to infer.
- To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
- To judicially rule or determine.
- To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
- To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- To criticize or label another person or thing.
noun
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
- A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
noun
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- Attention, consideration or thought.
- 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 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 look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
verb
- To comment on something; to make an observation.
- To take note of and celebrate (a holiday or similar occurrence); to follow (a type of time or calendar reckoning).
- To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
- To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
adv
noun
- A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others
- The act of representing.
- An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group (group of all bijective linear transformations) on the space.
- The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
- A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
- That which represents something else.
- The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
- A theatrical performance.
- An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.
verb
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
- To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
- To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
- To express something in a certain manner.
- To place something somewhere.
- To attach or attribute; to assign.
- To exercise a put option.
- To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
noun
verb
- To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
- To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
- To clean oneself with water.
- To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- To clean with water.
- To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
noun
- The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- A liquid used for washing.
- A shallow body of water.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The blade of an oar.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
noun
- Mental view; opinion; judgment.
- The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
- The ability to see.
- Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
- Something seen.
- A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
- A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening.
- a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
verb
- To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
- To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.
- To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.
- To observe though, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating.
noun
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation
- the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose
- deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature
- the act of making up your mind about something
noun
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- an intuitive assumption
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- event whose occurrence ends something
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
- the act of ending something
- a final settlement
- the last section of a communication
- the act of making up your mind about something
adj
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
- Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- Extremely important.
- Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
noun
adj
- Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
- In fashion; popular.
- Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
- (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
- Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
- Inserted or fitted into something.
- With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
- Incoming.
- Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
- Having been collected or received.
- Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
- Currently batting.
- He is very in with the Joneses.
- Furled or stowed.
- Located inside something.
adv
- After the beginning of something.
- The show still didn't become interesting 20 minutes in.
- Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
- Towards the speaker or other reference point.
- At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
- So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
prep
- Within the bounds or limits of.
- During (a period of time).
- Into.
- Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
- Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
- Characterized by.
- In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
- Surrounded by; among; amidst.
- Denoting a state of the subject.
- Less water gets in your boots this way.
- In the form of, in the denomination of.
- Indicating an order or arrangement.
- Contained by.
- Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
- Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
- At the end of (a period of time).
- Wearing (an item of clothing).
- Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
- Pertaining to; with regard to.
noun
verb
- To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
- To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
noun
verb
- To disseminate one's own opinions in a - typically - one-sided, strong manner.
- To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
- To dance rant steps.
- To criticize by ranting.
noun
- A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation.
- A criticism done by ranting.
- A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop.
verb
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
noun
noun
- A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
- A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
- Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
- The garden where Plato taught.
- A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.
- A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
- Academia.
- An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
verb
- To indicate or focus on a position closer than the one that is intended.
- To point the underside.
- To include too few points.
- To emphasize or call attention to a point within a discussion.
- To add a dot beneath a letter as a proofreading or diacritical mark.
adj
noun
- Something that calls attention to or emphasizes a particular conclusion within a topic of discussion.
- The number of scored points below a specified criterion.
- A downward facing point on the underside.
- The lowest intensity point of a diminuendo that is followed by an increase in volume and intensity.
verb
- react favorably to; consider right and proper
- consider or hold as true
- receive willingly something given or offered
- give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
- admit into a group or community
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- be designed to hold or take
- receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
verb
- To criticise
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, down.
- To party.
- To duck or take cover, usually to avoid harm. Commonly used as a caution or warning in the imperative.
- To concentrate; attend.
- To swallow (something).
- To leave the table after dining.
- To relax and enjoy oneself completely; be uninhibited in one's enjoyment.
- To have sex.
- To record in writing.
- To bring or come down; to descend; to cause to bring or come down.
- To depress; discourage; fatigue.
- To dance, particularly without inhibition or restraint, or in a sexually suggestive manner.
noun
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- 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.
- A posture.
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- A post of employment; a job.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
verb
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
noun
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
verb
- give to, and receive from, one another
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
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