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noun
- An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
- An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
- An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
- A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.
- A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
verb
noun
- a prominent attribute or aspect of something
- the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin
- the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater
- a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine
- (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind
- an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles
verb
noun
- a prominent attribute or aspect of something
- a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
- the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2
- any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
adj
noun
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- a body of students who are taught together
- people having the same social, economic, or educational status
- education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
- a league ranked by quality
- a body of students who graduate together
- (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
- elegance in dress or behavior
verb
verb
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- mark as different
- calculate a derivative; take the derivative
- become different during development
- evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment
- become distinct and acquire a different character
noun
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- a social unit living together
- primary social group; parents and children
- people descended from a common ancestor
- a person having kinship with another or others
- (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
- a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
verb
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- attach a tag or label to
- designate as if by a mark
- celebrate by some ceremony or observation
- make or leave a mark on
- to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- notice or perceive
- mark with a scar
- make small marks into the surface of
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- make underscoring marks
- remove from a list
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- insert punctuation marks into
noun
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a distinguishing symbol
- a reference point to shoot at
- a visible indication made on a surface
- the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- an indication of damage
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
noun
- an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
- a degree or grade of excellence or worth
- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- high social status
adj
noun
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- The details; particulars.
- A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
- Specification
adj
- of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
- similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- Hyponyms: monospecific, multispecific, oligospecific, paucispecific
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
- pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- special, distinctive or unique.
- being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
- explicit or definite.
noun
- (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
- an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
- the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- good repute
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
- a written symbol that is used to represent speech
verb
noun
- An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
- An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
- A script, book, screenplay, or the like that is on the market or has been bought for commercial production as a stage play, movie, or the like.
- Real estate; the business of selling houses.
- The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
- An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class.
- Something that is owned.
- A produced stage play, movie, or the like.
- A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
- A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
noun
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- The children's game of tag.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- Form; standard of performance.
verb
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To concern, to have to do with.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To consume, or otherwise use.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- To come close to; to approach.
noun
- A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
- An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.
- The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
- A variable that describes some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
- The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
- An actual value given to such a formal parameter.
- A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm.
- A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
- Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
- In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
noun
- Such a shared attribute or characteristic
- The common people; the commonalty
- A quality that applies to materiel or systems: (a) possessing like and interchangeable parts or characteristics enabling each to be utilized, or operated and maintained in common; (b) having interchangeable repair parts and/or components; (c) applying to consumable items interchangeably equivalent without adjustment.
- The joint possession of a set of attributes or characteristics.
noun
- An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
- The act of affecting or acting upon.
- The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.
- An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
- A feeling of love or strong attachment.
noun
- A particular feature or trait.
- A token in a game representing a unit or character.
- A musical composition which is short in duration.
- A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
- Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
- Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
- An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
- The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
- A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
- A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
verb
adj
adj
- applicable to or common to all members of a group or set
- of worldwide scope or applicability
- adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations
noun
- (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages
- (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class
- a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings
- coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions
noun
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- noticeable heterogeneity
- (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics
- a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances
- a difference that is usually pleasant
noun
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- a perceptual structure
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- a printed document with spaces in which to write
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
- a particular mode in which something is manifested
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
- a body of students who are taught together
- an ability to perform well
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- a mold for setting concrete
verb
noun
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
- A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- A document that effects this transfer.
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- An assigned task.
- The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
- An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
- A position to which someone is assigned.
- A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
noun
- A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
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verb
verb
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- To draw off (interest or attention).
- He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
- To separate; to disengage.
- To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- To create abstractions.
- To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- To perform the process of abstraction.
- To withdraw oneself; to retire.
adj
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- Lacking a story.
- Absolute.
- Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- Insufficiently factual.
noun
- A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- An abstract work of art.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
noun
- An attribute, symptom, object, or behavior which is distinctly characteristic of someone or something.
- A card advertising the services of a prostitute.
- Excrement, especially of a domestic animal.
- A small printed card which identifies the bearer, traditionally presented for introduction when making a social visit to a home or when attending a formal social event or business meeting.
- A phonecard.
noun
- A group or category distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
- Subspecies.
- A race condition.
- A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
- A progressive movement toward a goal.
- Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
- A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
- A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
- A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
- An infraspecific rank, a pathotype, pathovar, etc.
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
- A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
- A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare species, subspecies).
- The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
- A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare ethnic group). See Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race.
- Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
verb
adj
noun
- Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
- The start/finish line.
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
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noun
noun
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
- a state of depression or agitation
- the territory occupied by a nation
verb
verb
- To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
- To give (a value) to a variable.
- To allot or give (something) as a task.
- To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
- To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
- To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
- To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
noun
noun
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- an instant of time
- the object of an activity
- a V shape
- a very small circular shape
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- an outstanding characteristic
- sharp end
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a wall socket
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
verb
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- be oriented
- direct into a position for use
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- sail close to the wind
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- be positionable in a specified manner
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- give a point to
- repair the joints of bricks
noun
- A group with common attributes.
- A taxon at this rank.
- A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
- A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
- Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
- A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
noun
- Class which classifies other classes by features.
- A machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density.
- Someone who classifies.
- A word or morpheme used in some languages (such as Japanese and American Sign Language), in certain contexts (such as counting), to indicate the semantic class to which something belongs.
- A program or algorithm that classifies.
verb
- give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- charge with a function; charge to be
- create and charge with a task or function
- mention and identify by name
- make reference to
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
noun
verb
- give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
- recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
- consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else
- conceive of as united or associated
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- consider to be equal or the same
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