English words for 'anything that cannot be measured'
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noun
- anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
- a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
- (countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
- (figuratively) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.
- (uncountable) Water belonging to an ocean.
- A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).
noun
- anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
- a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
- turbulent water with swells of considerable size
- (planetology) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.
- A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
- A single wave; billow.
- (physics) A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
- A large body of salt water.
- A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
- (attributive, in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
- (figurative) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
- The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.
- (planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
- The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
noun
- something illusory and unattainable
- an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects
- An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
- (figuratively) An illusion.
verb
noun
- Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
- Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
- (oceanography) The abyssal zone.
- (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
- (with article) An impending catastrophic happening.
- (heraldry) The center of an escutcheon; fess point.
- Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
noun
adj
- Incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.
- incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch
- lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen
- hard to pin down or identify
- (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value
noun
adj
adj
adj
- having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude
- total and all-embracing
- too numerous to be counted
- (of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive)
- Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
- (music) Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.
- Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
- (with plural noun) Infinitely many.
- (set theory, of a set) Having infinitely many elements.
- (mathematics) Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
- (grammar) Not limited by person or number.
noun
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adj
- At a speed that cannot be measured.
- (of a car) Having an odometer that cannot be altered to provide a fake reading.
- (transgender slang) Not recognizable as transgender or a drag performer; passing.
- At a time that cannot be measured or identified.
- (more generally) Unreadable; undetectable.
- Being undetectably homosexual.
noun
- something with no concrete substance
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- street names for marijuana
- tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
- a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
- an indication of some hidden activity
- the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
- a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
- (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- Pollen scattered by a plant.
- Mist, fog, or drizzle; water vapour, such as from exhalation into cold air.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- Opaque aerosol released on a battlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation via smokescreen.
- (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- (countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- (uncountable, slang) Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
- (uncountable) A light grey color tinted with blue.
verb
- emit a cloud of fine particles
- inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- (intransitive) Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- (slang) To beat someone at something.
- (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- (transitive, slang) To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun.
- (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
noun
- (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.
- (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
- Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
- (architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
- (archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
- (figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
- (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person.
- (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- (military slang) An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
- (civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
- (computing, countable) A user's preferences.
- (Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
- a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers
- biographical sketch
- an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics
- degree of exposure to public notice
- an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side)
verb
- To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
- (transitive) To draw in profile or outline.
- (transitive, engineering) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- (computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
- (transitive) To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
- write about
- represent in profile, by drawing or painting
noun
adj
noun
- anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
- a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
- (countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
- (figuratively) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.
- (uncountable) Water belonging to an ocean.
- A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).
noun
- anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
- a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
- turbulent water with swells of considerable size
- (planetology) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.
- A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
- A single wave; billow.
- (physics) A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
- A large body of salt water.
- A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
- (attributive, in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
- (figurative) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
- The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.
- (planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
- The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
noun
- something illusory and unattainable
- an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects
- An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
- (figuratively) An illusion.
verb
noun
- Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
- Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
- (oceanography) The abyssal zone.
- (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
- (with article) An impending catastrophic happening.
- (heraldry) The center of an escutcheon; fess point.
- Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
noun
adj
- Incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.
- incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch
- lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen
- hard to pin down or identify
- (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value
noun
adj
noun
- something with no concrete substance
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- street names for marijuana
- tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
- a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
- an indication of some hidden activity
- the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
- a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
- (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- Pollen scattered by a plant.
- Mist, fog, or drizzle; water vapour, such as from exhalation into cold air.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- Opaque aerosol released on a battlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation via smokescreen.
- (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- (countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- (uncountable, slang) Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
- (uncountable) A light grey color tinted with blue.
verb
- emit a cloud of fine particles
- inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- (intransitive) Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- (slang) To beat someone at something.
- (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- (transitive, slang) To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun.
- (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
noun
- (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.
- (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
- Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
- (architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
- (archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
- (figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
- (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person.
- (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- (military slang) An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
- (civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
- (computing, countable) A user's preferences.
- (Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
- a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers
- biographical sketch
- an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics
- degree of exposure to public notice
- an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side)
verb
- To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
- (transitive) To draw in profile or outline.
- (transitive, engineering) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- (computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
- (transitive) To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
- write about
- represent in profile, by drawing or painting
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adj
adj
- having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude
- total and all-embracing
- too numerous to be counted
- (of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive)
- Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
- (music) Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.
- Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
- (with plural noun) Infinitely many.
- (set theory, of a set) Having infinitely many elements.
- (mathematics) Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
- (grammar) Not limited by person or number.
noun
num
adj
- At a speed that cannot be measured.
- (of a car) Having an odometer that cannot be altered to provide a fake reading.
- (transgender slang) Not recognizable as transgender or a drag performer; passing.
- At a time that cannot be measured or identified.
- (more generally) Unreadable; undetectable.
- Being undetectably homosexual.