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noun
- act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
- a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
- processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
verb
- To augment; to improve; to intensify.
- To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
- To empower; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to enhearten.
- To reinforce, to add to, to support (someone or something)
- To grow strong or stronger.
- To substantiate; to corroborate (a belief, argument, etc.)
prep_phrase
noun
- The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
- The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
- The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
- The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
verb
- increase or develop
- obtain
- win something through one's efforts
- derive a benefit from
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- rise in rate or price
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- increase (one's body weight)
noun
verb
- To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- To progress through a sequence of stages.
- To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- To place one's pieces actively.
- To change with a specific direction, progress.
- To create.
- To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
noun
- The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
- A procedure used in the nomenclature of complex organic compounds in which the superatoms of a basic structure (a phane) are replaced by cyclic structures (amplificants).
- The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
- A translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
- Gain.
- The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
verb
- To make an addition; to augment; to increase; to add on.
- To append (e.g. a statement); to say further information; to add on.
- To summon minions or reinforcements.
- To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.
- To give by way of increased possession (to someone); to bestow (on).
- To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.
- To sum up; to put together mentally; to add up.
- To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.
noun
verb
- To grow; to advance.
- To begin to speak.
- To move very quickly and suddenly.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- To shoot the moon.
- To ejaculate.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- To photograph.
- To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To make the stated score.
- To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To throw dice.
- To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.ᵂ
- To dismiss or do away with.
- To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- To lunge.
- To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To film.
- To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- To fire (a projectile).
- To send to someone.
- To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- To go over or pass quickly through.
intj
noun
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- A photography session.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
noun
noun
- The action of increasing or becoming greater.
- The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
- The amount of increase.
- The waxing of the moon.
- An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."
- A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
verb
verb
- Grow; increase.
- To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- To cause a change of velocity.
- To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
adj
noun
- An act, process, or instance of expanding.
- A new addition.
- A product to be used with a previous product.
- That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
- The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
- The replacement of a short name (e.g., acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, abbreviation) with the longer name that is synonymous with it, as when spelling out acronyms to ensure clarity for a general audience.
- The string of text thus substituted.
- The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
verb
- To improve, increase, or speed up.
- To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
- To collect and detain (a suspect).
- To lift; to grasp and raise.
- To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- To receive calls; to function correctly.
- To record; to notch up.
- To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- To collect an object, especially in passing.
- To answer a telephone.
- To take control (physically) of something.
- To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- To restart or resume.
- To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
- To reduce the despondency of.
- To pay for.
- To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To collect a passenger.
noun
- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
- The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
- The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
verb
- To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- To thrive or grow well.
- To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- To make bold, sweeping movements with.
- To be in a period of greatest influence.
- To prosper or fare well.
- To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
noun
verb
- To increase or expand rapidly.
- Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
- To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- To inflate like a balloon.
- To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
- To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
noun
- Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
- An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
- A bomb or shell.
- The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
- A woman's breast.
- A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
- A speech bubble.
- Synonym of balloon payment
- Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
- A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
- A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
adj
- Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
- Advancing in severity.
- Of or relating to progressive education.
- Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
- Liberal.
- Continuous.
- Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
- Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
noun
noun
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- An instance of booming.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- A microphone supported on such a pole.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
- A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
intj
- The sound of a bass drum beating.
- Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
- Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
- The sound of a cannon firing.
verb
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- To flourish, grow, or progress.
- To make something boom.
- To subject to a sonic boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
- To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
- To raise or lower with a crane boom.
adj
- Constructed or enhanced.
- Made of sections or layers, one on top of the other.
- Having buildings, especially having residences and high population density.
- (of an area of land) Having street lights and therefore subject to a 30 mph speed limit.
- Having increased in size, quantity, or intensity over time; accumulated.
- (of an area of land) Having specific traffic signaling and therefore usually subject to a maximum 50 km/h speed limit.
noun
- something contributing to growth or increase
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
- (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
verb
- To improve; to become better or more complete.
- To develop.
- To expedite.
- To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
noun
- Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
- Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
- An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
- Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
- Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
verb
- To create, increase or develop.
- To exponentiate, to involute.
- To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- To open, initiate.
- To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To collect or amass.
- To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- To promote.
- To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To bring up; to grow.
- To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
noun
verb
- To materialise; to grow stronger.
- To go towards the attacking goal.
- To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
- To rise from one's bed (often implying to wake up).
- To bring together; to amass.
- To gather or grow larger by accretion.
- To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
- To criticise.
- To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.
- To annoy.
verb
- To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
- To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
- To establish a basis for (something).
- To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
- To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
- To form by combining materials or parts.
- To develop in magnitude or extent.
- To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
noun
- A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.
- Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
- The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
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