illative
vocable
inferentialist
guesser
supposition
implication
inferring
eggcorn
so
connotation
indirective
pronoun
say
what do I know
suggest
codeword
metaphor
synonymist
back-formation
equivocal
hypocatastasis
verifier
determiner phrase
workword
anybody's guess
allude
voucher
exact science
innuendo
pronominal phrase
meaning
psychosemantics
weasel word
illative conjunction
attribute
mention
synonymizer
process
smack
metonymic
contradiction in terms
put words in someone's mouth
read
etymologize
deduction
signal phrase
entailment
idea
counterword
dream on
collocation
read between the lines
designatum
get
word
take
duck test
signpost
plesionym
would
input
wordly
remark
comment
circumlocution
usagist
indubiously
logomach
verbal
assertionally
indirect quotation
undoubtlessly
I know it when I see it
synonymize
figure of speech
enunciator
hint
Scully
confusable
speculative
muse
squint
surmise
quotably
I don't know
determiner
premise
postpositive adjective
should
utraquism
anaphor
determinative
postulate
thesis
blanagram
headword
intimation
inferentialist
so
indirective
metonymic
wordly
verbal
speculative
indubiously
assertionally
undoubtlessly
quotably
illative
vocable
guesser
supposition
implication
inferring
eggcorn
connotation
pronoun
codeword
metaphor
synonymist
back-formation
equivocal
hypocatastasis
verifier
determiner phrase
workword
anybody's guess
voucher
exact science
pronominal phrase
meaning
psychosemantics
weasel word
illative conjunction
attribute
innuendo
synonymizer
contradiction in terms
deduction
signal phrase
entailment
idea
counterword
collocation
designatum
word
duck test
signpost
plesionym
input
remark
comment
circumlocution
usagist
logomach
indirect quotation
figure of speech
enunciator
confusable
determiner
postpositive adjective
utraquism
anaphor
determinative
thesis
blanagram
headword
intimation
say
suggest
allude
innuendo
mention
process
smack
put words in someone's mouth
read
etymologize
read between the lines
get
take
would
synonymize
hint
Scully
muse
squint
surmise
premise
should
postulate
noun
- An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
- The act of implicating.
- The state of being implicated.
- The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
- Logical consequence.
- A possible effect or result of a decision or action.
adj
- In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.
- True, accurate.
noun
- A type of dairy product, made especially in Japan between the seventh and 10th centuries, by reducing milk by boiling it.
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.
intj
- Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response to a question.
- Used as a question to ask for further explanation of something said, often rhetorically or in a dismissive or impolite manner.
- Used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story, or a new thought or question in continuation of an existing topic.
adv
- To the (explicitly stated) extent that.
- To such an extent or degree; as.
- Very much.
- Very (negative clause).
- In the same manner or to the same extent as aforementioned; also.
- Very (positive clause).
- To the (implied) extent.
- In a particular manner.
conj
verb
- Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- To indicate in a written form.
- To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
- To recite.
- To pronounce.
- To try; to assay.
- To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
- To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
adv
intj
noun
noun
- A word or phrase (or by extension a concept) used to make a (concealed) reference to another word or concept.
- A string representing an encoded piece of text.
- A type of crossword puzzle where the letters of the alphabet are represented by numbers and the solver must identify them by their position and frequency.
noun
- A word or phrase used in such implied comparison.
- The use of a word or phrase to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word or phrase.
- The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- Used contrastively to characterize something as imprecise or relying on intuition or heuristics.
- A field of science such as physics or chemistry that is not perfectly exact, but still capable of highly quantitative results based on methods that are are not strictly rigorous, but still systematic and scrupulous.
- A mathematical science, i.e. a field of science such as mathematics or mathematical physics which is capable of perfectly exact results based on rigorously formal methods.
verb
noun
- A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing. An implication, intimation or insinuation.
- Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
- She made a devious innuendo about her husband, who was embarrassed.
- A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
noun
- A word that qualifies a noun.
- That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
- A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
- An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
- A characteristic or quality of a thing.
- An option or setting belonging to some object.
verb
verb
- To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
- To perform a particular process on a thing.
- To develop photographic film.
- To take legal proceedings against.
- To walk in a procession
- To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
noun
- Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
- A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
- The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
- A series of events which produce a result (the product).
- An executable task or program.
- Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
- A structure that arises above a surface.
- An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
verb
- To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
- To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- To slap or hit someone.
- To have a particular taste; used with of.
- To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
- To get the flavor of.
- To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- To make a smacking sound.
adv
noun
- A group of jellyfish.
- A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- The sound of a loud kiss.
- A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
- A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- A form of fried potato; a scallop.
- A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- Heroin.
verb
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- To read work(s) written by (a named author).
- Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
- To consist of certain text.
- Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
noun
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- Something to be read; a written work.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
- An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
noun
- something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
- a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
- an amount or percentage deducted
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)
- the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
noun
- A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
- An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
- A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
- A purposeful aim or goal; intent
- A musical theme or melodic subject.
- More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
- An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
noun
- A word (for example so) that is frequently used in a reflex-like manner in an answer and that has thereby quickly taken on a new, much less specific or much looser meaning or is even almost meaningless and performs a completely new function.
- Such a word (or a word that has gone through a similar change) when not used as a reflex-like answer.
noun
- A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.
- Such a specific grouping.
- A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x)=y_0(x)+∑ₗ₌₀^q𝛼ₗy_l(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
- The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
- A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.
verb
- Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- To cause to become; to bring about.
- To kill.
- To receive.
- To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- To getter.
- To obtain; to acquire.
- To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- To begin (doing something or to do something).
- To have. See usage notes.
- To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- To cause to do.
- To fetch, bring, take.
- To become, or cause oneself to become.
- To understand. (compare get it)
- To catch out, trick successfully.
- To find as an answer.
- To hear completely; catch.
- To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- To go, to leave; to scram.
- To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- To measure.
- To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- To perplex, stump.
- To cause to come or go or move.
noun
noun
- Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
- An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
- A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
- A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning
- The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
- The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
- A minor reprimand.
- Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
- News; tidings
- A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
- A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
- A brief discussion or conversation.
- A promise; an oath or guarantee.
- See words.
- The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
- A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
- The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
- A finite string that is not a command or operator.
- A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
- Logos, Christ.
intj
- Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond."
- An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.
verb
verb
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- 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 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 visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- 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
- Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
- Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
- Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
- Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
- Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
- Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
- Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
- Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
- Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
- Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
noun
noun
- Unnecessary use of extra words to express an idea, such as a pleonastic phrase (sometimes driven by an attempt at emphatic clarity) or a wordy substitution (the latter driven by euphemistic intent, pedagogic intent, or sometimes loquaciousness alone).
- Necessary use of a phrase to circumvent either a vocabulary fault (of speaker or listener) or a lexical gap, either monolingually or in translation.
- An instance of such usage; a roundabout expression, whether an inadvisable one or a necessary one.
verb
- To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
- To develop and add hints to a font.
- To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
noun
- A small, barely detectable amount.
- An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
- An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- A clue.
- Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
verb
- To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
- To look or glance sideways.
- To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
- To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
- To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
- To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
adj
noun
phrase
- A phrase used to indicate that one is speculating (often used sarcastically when stating the obvious).
- A reason and common excuse used to state that a person is unclear of why something did or did not happen, or is or is not the case.
- A phrase used in response to a question or command in which the target person does not know the answer to or how to respond.
noun
- A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
- A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
- Something (some input factor, a nonsentient agent) that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
- Someone (a sentient agent) who determines; a decider of a disposition.
verb
- To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
- To make a premise.
- To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
- To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
noun
- Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
- A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
- A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
- The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.
- Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
verb
- Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
- Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the stated thing will happen or be true in the future.
- Indicates that something is expected to have happened or to be the case now.
- Used to express a conditional outcome.
- With verbs such as 'see' or 'hear', usually in the second person, used to point out something remarkable in either a good or bad way.
- To make a statement of what ought to be true, as opposed to reality.
- Used to impart a tentative, conjectural or polite nuance.
- Simple past tense of shall.
- In questions, asks what is correct, proper, desirable, etc.
- Used to issue an instruction (traditionally seen as carrying less force of authority than alternatives such as 'shall' or 'must').
- Used to give advice or opinion that an action is, or would have been, beneficial or desirable.
- Used to form a variant of the present subjunctive, expressing a state or action that is hypothetical, potential, mandated, etc.
noun
verb
- To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
- To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
noun
- An axiom.
- Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.
- A requirement; a prerequisite.
- A fundamental element; a basic principle.
adj
noun
- An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
- In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
- A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.
- The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
- A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
- A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
- A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
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