sticking point
job
problem
come to a stop
community
community of interests
standstill
deadlock
stalemate
dead end
impasse
at a stand
deal
bargain
have
make
conclude
inharmonious
home
get
hammer out
cul-de-sac
done deal
compound
peace process
make an effort
fight out
there's more than one way to skin a cat
ox is in the ditch
slow lane
stage of the game
treat
bog
progression
push water uphill
accommodation
procession
progress
forward motion
onward motion
make terms
advancement
advance
meeting of the minds
cold water
white smoke
crisis
aha moment
scrabbly
draw a bead on
aspire
aim
overkill
consensus
running target
shoot for
ahlie
temporize
trouble spot
troublespot
antiprogressive
bottom line
swamp
roadblock
that's done it
antiprogressivist
hypothetical imperative
antiprogress
barrier
standard
come to terms with
halfway house
collaborate
hit
underfoot
headway
subconsensus
run adrift
release
flux
trade-off
step
attained
discordance
discord
aligned
climacteric
bridge
have one's ducks in a row
measure
tradeoff
death grip
state of flux
for it
paction
restrictive covenant
strategy
inharmonious
scrabbly
antiprogressive
antiprogressivist
antiprogress
subconsensus
attained
aligned
underfoot
sticking point
job
problem
community
community of interests
standstill
deadlock
stalemate
dead end
impasse
deal
bargain
home
cul-de-sac
done deal
peace process
slow lane
stage of the game
bog
progression
accommodation
procession
progress
forward motion
onward motion
advancement
advance
meeting of the minds
cold water
white smoke
crisis
aha moment
overkill
running target
trouble spot
troublespot
bottom line
swamp
roadblock
hypothetical imperative
barrier
halfway house
headway
flux
trade-off
step
discordance
discord
climacteric
bridge
measure
tradeoff
death grip
state of flux
paction
restrictive covenant
strategy
come to a stop
have
make
conclude
get
hammer out
compound
make an effort
fight out
treat
push water uphill
make terms
draw a bead on
aspire
aim
consensus
shoot for
temporize
come to terms with
collaborate
hit
run adrift
release
have one's ducks in a row
noun
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- the responsibility to do something
- the performance of a piece of work
- a damaging piece of work
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a crime (especially a robbery)
verb
noun
- agreement as to goals
- a group of people living in a particular local area
- a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common
- common ownership
- a group of nations having common interests
- a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
- (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
noun
- an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
- a particular instance of buying or selling
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- a plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
- wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement)
- the act of distributing playing cards
- the act of apportioning or distributing something
verb
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- take action with respect to (someone or something)
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- behave in a certain way towards others
- distribute cards to the players in a game
- direct the course of; manage or control
- give out as one's portion or share
- give (a specific card) to a player
- sell (especially of illegal material)
verb
- achieve a point or goal
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- have as a feature
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- have ownership or possession of
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- have a personal or business relationship with someone
- organize or be responsible for
- have left
- be confronted with
- undergo
- suffer from; be ill with
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- receive willingly something given or offered
- get something; come into possession of
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- cause to be born
- have sex with; archaic use
noun
verb
- achieve a point or goal
- engage in
- give certain properties to something
- make or cause to be or to become
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- create or manufacture a man-made product
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way
- create by artistic means
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- create or design, often in a certain way
- to compose or represent
- reach a goal
- be or be capable of being changed or made into
- make by shaping or bringing together constituents
- perform, produce, or carry out
- make by combining materials and parts
- change from one form into another
- act in a certain way so as to acquire
- charge with a function; charge to be
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- institute, enact, or establish
- carry out or commit
- form by assembling individuals or constituents
- organize or be responsible for
- put in order or neaten
- head into a specified direction
- have a bowel movement
- undergo fabrication or creation
- be suitable for
- add up to
- amount to
- constitute the essence of
- appear to begin an activity
- proceed along a path
- reach in time
- gather and light the materials for
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- induce to have sex
- assure the success of
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- consider as being
- calculate as being
- cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable
- favor the development of
- develop into
- behave in a certain manner
- eliminate urine
noun
noun
- The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- Home plate.
- The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
adv
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
- into the goal
- To the home page
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length
- To one's place of birth
- into the right, proper or stowed position
adj
- Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign
- Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
verb
verb
- achieve a point or goal
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- go or come after and bring or take back
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- take vengeance on or get even
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- give certain properties to something
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- attract and fix
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- reach by calculation
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- purchase
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- reach and board
- irritate
- evoke an emotional response
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- overcome or destroy
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- make (offspring) by reproduction
noun
verb
- To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
- To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
- To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
- To worsen a situation.
- Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
- To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.
- To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
adj
- Composed of elements; not simple.
- An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
- Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
noun
- A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
- An enclosure for secure storage.
- An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
- A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or an affix, e.g. bookshop, high school or non-standard.
- A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
- Anything made by combining several things.
- A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
- A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.
verb
- engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement
- interact in a certain way
- subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
- provide treatment for
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- provide with a gift or entertainment
- provide with choice or abundant food or drink
- regard or consider in a specific way
noun
noun
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
- An act or instance of defecation.
- A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
verb
- To make a mess of something.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- To cover or spray with excrement.
- To sink and stick in bogland.
- To go away.
noun
- Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
- The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
- The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
- The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
- Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
- An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
- The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
- A loan of money.
- A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
- Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
- An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
- An accommodation bill or note.
- Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
- The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
noun
- the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
- a movement forward
- a change for the better; progress in development
- a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- an amount paid before it is earned
- increase in price or value
adj
verb
- move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
- bring forward for consideration or acceptance
- increase or raise
- contribute to the progress or growth of
- cause to move forward
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- develop in a positive way
- develop further
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- pay in advance
- move forward
- rise in rate or price
noun
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
- A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
- A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
adj
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Scribbly.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Stunted.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
verb
- have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- propose or intend
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- direct (a remark) toward an intended goal
noun
verb
noun
- A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
- Average projected value.
- General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action.
- An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation.
verb
- To discuss, to negotiate; to reach a compromise.
- To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes so that a compromise can be reached or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to stall for time.
- To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.
intj
adj
- Having a manual transmission.
- Conforming to the standard variety.
- Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
- As normally supplied (not optional).
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- Having recognized excellence or authority.
- Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
noun
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
- A level of quality or attainment.
- The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- The sheth of a plough.
- A collar of mail protecting the neck.
- A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
- An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
- A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
- Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
- A manual transmission vehicle.
- A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
- A large drinking cup.
- standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
- A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
- A musical work of established popularity.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- Grade level in primary education.
verb
- To reach or achieve.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To affect negatively.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
adj
pron
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
noun
- Progress toward a goal.
- The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses) moving in succession in the same direction, especially along the same pre-determined route.
- Movement ahead or forward.
- Forward motion, or its rate.
- A cross-heading.
- The clearance beneath an object, such as an arch, ceiling or bridge; headroom.
verb
- To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
- To set free a chemical substance.
- To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
- To make available to the public.
- To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- To free or liberate; to set free.
- (of a call) To hang up.
- To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
- to come out; be out.
- To discharge.
- To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
noun
- The act or manner of ending a sound.
- In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
- The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
- Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
- The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
- The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken
- Orgasm.
- A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
- The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
- The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
- That which is released, untied or let go.
- Liberation from pain or suffering.
noun
- a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action
- the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface
- a flow or discharge
- a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed
- excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea)
- the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle
- (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area
- in constant change
verb
noun
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the distance covered by a step
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- relative position in a graded series
- a short distance
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- a musical interval of two semitones
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
verb
- shift or move by taking a step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- treat badly
- furnish with steps
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- measure (distances) by pacing
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
noun
- A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
- The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.
- A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year).
adj
noun
- A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord.
- An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.
- A software component connecting two or more separate systems.
- A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.
- A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
- A similar position in gymnastics.
- A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each.
- A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
- A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.
- A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.
- The situation where a lone rider or small group of riders closes the space between them and the rider or group in front.
- An elongated chain of teammates, connected to the pack, for improved blocking potential.
- The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
- An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
- A defensive position in which the wrestler is supported by his feet and head, belly-up, in order to prevent touch-down of the shoulders and eventually to dislodge an opponent who has established a position on top.
- A contrasting section within a song that prepares for the return of the original material section.
- The gap between the holes on a bowling ball
- A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.
- Anything supported at the ends and serving to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
- Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit
- A connection, real or abstract.
- An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
- A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner.
- The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.
- A rudimentary procedure before definite solution
- A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.
- An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
- A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2 of OSI model.
- A day falling between two public holidays and consequently designated as an additional holiday.
verb
noun
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
verb
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