English words for 'annexationism'
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noun
noun
noun
verb
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
- To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To become more successful than (someone or something else).
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up, as of debts or payments
- do over
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
adj
- Annexed; concomitant.
- Attached as an appendage.
- (law) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
- affixed as an appendage
noun
verb
noun
noun
- the territory occupied by a nation
- an area outside of cities and towns
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
- the people who live in a nation or country
- The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.
- (especially British, uncountable, countable) An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district.
- (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
- (informal) The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways.
- The inhabitants or people of a district, region, or nation; the populace, the public.
- (mining) The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs.
- (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
- Ellipsis of country music.
- (uncountable, countable) An area of land of indefinite extent or of more or less definite extent in relation to human occupation, especially characterized by its particular physical features, or its suitability for a particular activity or connected with its population (by race, dialect, culture, etc.) or a person, especially a writer, or their works.
adj
noun
- the territory occupied by a nation
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- territory over which rule or control is exercised
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for their own use
- the people who live in a nation or country
- a domain in which something is dominant
- agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
- the land on which real estate is located
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- A country or region.
- (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows.
- lant; urine
- (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
- (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
- (often in combination) Realm, domain.
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
- (agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
verb
- bring into a different state
- shoot at and force to come down
- cause to come to the ground
- deliver (a blow)
- bring ashore
- arrive on shore
- reach or come to rest
- (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
- (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- (intransitive) To come into rest.
- (intransitive, figurative) To go down well with an audience.
- (intransitive, of a punch) To connect (to arrive at an intended target).
- (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.
- (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
- (transitive) To bring to land.
- (transitive, of a blow) To deliver.
noun
- the territory occupied by a nation
- (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 politically organized body of people under a single government
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- a state of depression or agitation
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city state, with the central government acting as its visible instrument.
verb
noun
- the act of conquering
- an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone
- success in mastering something difficult
- (colloquial, figurative) A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections.
- (video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.
- (by extension, often figuratively) An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles.
- That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle.
- An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
verb
noun
- the action of changing from colonial to independent status
- (social sciences) The reverse of colonization, i.e. granting back autonomy to a group.
- (medicine) The elimination of a colony of pathogens from the body of a patient, especially antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
- The freeing of a colony etc from dependent status by granting it independence.
noun
noun
noun
noun
- the territory occupied by a nation
- an area outside of cities and towns
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
- the people who live in a nation or country
- The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.
- (especially British, uncountable, countable) An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district.
- (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
- (informal) The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways.
- The inhabitants or people of a district, region, or nation; the populace, the public.
- (mining) The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs.
- (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
- Ellipsis of country music.
- (uncountable, countable) An area of land of indefinite extent or of more or less definite extent in relation to human occupation, especially characterized by its particular physical features, or its suitability for a particular activity or connected with its population (by race, dialect, culture, etc.) or a person, especially a writer, or their works.
adj
noun
- the territory occupied by a nation
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- territory over which rule or control is exercised
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for their own use
- the people who live in a nation or country
- a domain in which something is dominant
- agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
- the land on which real estate is located
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- A country or region.
- (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows.
- lant; urine
- (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
- (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
- (often in combination) Realm, domain.
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
- (agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
verb
- bring into a different state
- shoot at and force to come down
- cause to come to the ground
- deliver (a blow)
- bring ashore
- arrive on shore
- reach or come to rest
- (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
- (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- (intransitive) To come into rest.
- (intransitive, figurative) To go down well with an audience.
- (intransitive, of a punch) To connect (to arrive at an intended target).
- (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.
- (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
- (transitive) To bring to land.
- (transitive, of a blow) To deliver.
noun
- the territory occupied by a nation
- (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 politically organized body of people under a single government
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- a state of depression or agitation
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city state, with the central government acting as its visible instrument.
verb
noun
- the act of conquering
- an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone
- success in mastering something difficult
- (colloquial, figurative) A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections.
- (video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.
- (by extension, often figuratively) An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles.
- That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle.
- An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
verb
noun
- the action of changing from colonial to independent status
- (social sciences) The reverse of colonization, i.e. granting back autonomy to a group.
- (medicine) The elimination of a colony of pathogens from the body of a patient, especially antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
- The freeing of a colony etc from dependent status by granting it independence.
verb
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
- To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To become more successful than (someone or something else).
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up, as of debts or payments
- do over
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
verb
noun
adj
- Annexed; concomitant.
- Attached as an appendage.
- (law) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
- affixed as an appendage