English words for 'autonomous, self-governing'
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noun
noun
noun
- a separate and self-contained entity
- a special situation
- a vaguely specified concern
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- an action
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- an artifact
- an event
- a special abstraction
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
- (slang, euphemistic) A vulva or vagina.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (MLE) Alternative form of ting.
- (informal) A romantic couple.
- (MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (informal, used possessively, chiefly in the negative) That which is favoured; personal preference.
- (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- Corporeal object.
- (informal) A custom or practice.
- Whatever can be owned.
- (informal, used possessively, with "do") One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- A living being or creature.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- (informal, with the) The central point; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
verb
noun
adj
adj
- Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.
- existing as an independent entity
- (Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).
- Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
- (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment
- (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
noun
- (Internet) Initialism of autonomous system.
- (Java programming language) Initialism of application server.
- (education, UK, historical) Initialism of Advanced Supplementary.
- (medicine) Initialism of ankylosing spondylitis.
- Initialism of Alström syndrome.
- (education, UK) Initialism of Advanced Subsidiary.
- (neurology) Initialism of Asperger's syndrome.
- (cardiology) Initialism of aortic stenosis.
- (US, Navy) Initialism of auxiliary submarine: a naval tender, a submarine tender that tends to submarines.
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phrase
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- (uncountable) The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
- personal independence
- (government, countable) A self-governing country or region.
- (mechanics, uncountable) The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
- (philosophy, uncountable) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
- (Christianity, uncountable) The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.
- immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
noun
- An autonomous state under protectorate.
- (UK, historical) The office or position of the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.
- The authority assumed by a state over another state deemed inferior or dependent, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs but the protected state retains its nominal sovereignty.
- The office or position of protector (sense 5).
- (UK, historical) Government by a protector; especially, The Protectorate: government of England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1653 and 1659 under the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, later his son Richard Cromwell.
- a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty
noun
- The regulation by a person of their own behaviour without external control, governance, or monitoring.
- The regulation by an organization of its own operation without external control, governance, or monitoring.
- The regulation by a device or machine of its own operation without external control, governance, or monitoring.
noun
- government free from external control
- (by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- the authority of a state to govern another state
- (by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
- Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
- (countable) A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.
- Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.
adj
noun
- (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
- (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- (by extension) A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
- (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
- (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
- lean flesh of any of several flatfish
- the underside of the foot
- the underside of footwear or a golf club
verb
noun
- the state of being controlled or governed
- the act of controlling or directing according to rule
- the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular
- a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
- an authoritative command
- (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered
- (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
- (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
- (countable, in the singular) A numbered provision within such kind of legislation.
- (law, often in the plural) A type of law made by the executive branch of a government, usually as authorized by a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
- (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
- (genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
- (medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
adj
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name
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- self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government
- Ellipsis of home rule class.
- The rule or government of an appendant or dependent country or subnational territory, as to some or all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country or territory itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country.
- (historical, especially) Self-government of the island of Ireland.
noun
- Any household, institution, or other organization that is run under such sovereignty or autocracy.
- A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.
- A government which exercises autocratic rule.
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
noun
- the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units
- A system of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority.
- (theology) Covenantalism.
- The belief that such a system is superior to other forms of government.
adj
noun
adj
- Depending on itself; independent.
- (chemistry, of a dye) Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- (military, of a rank or appointment) Actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment.
- Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- (law) Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- (by extension) Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- being on topic and prompting thought
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something
noun
verb
noun
- An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status and relationship to other states is undefined.
- A republic or commonwealth, as with the former Orange Free State, and especially as used for the current United Kingdom to refer to the Commonwealth period under Cromwell.
- (US, historical) Before the American Civil War, any of the states in which slaveownership was illegal.
- (grammar) A noun form in Afroasiatic languages contrasting with the construct state by the noun not being dependent (more commonly called absolute state, or indeterminate state if the specific language contrasts a determinate state with the construct state).
- (engineering) A condition of not being supported or constrained by outside forces.
- A Federal state, with allegiance to a larger entity, as currently with Germany, and earlier, the relationship between the states of the Holy Roman Empire and the Emperor, and later, the states of the German Empire under the Hohenzollerns.
- A political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state, as with the former Congo Free State and the former Irish Free State.
- any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War
name
adj
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- held from above and hanging down
- addicted to a drug
- relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
- contingent on something else
- Hanging down.
- Relying upon; depending upon.
- (of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms) Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
- (medicine) Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
- (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
noun
- a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
- (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
- (philosophy) dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.
- (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
adj
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- likely to be affected by something
- possibly accepting or permitting
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
noun
- some situation or event that is thought about
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
verb
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
noun
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- (music) A musical score.
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
verb
noun
- A non-autonomous entity that claims to be a sovereign state and mimics the actions of a state (with varying degrees of seriousness), but lacks any legal recognition and exists only on paper or in the mind of its creator; a micronational entity.
- Synonym of microstate (“a country that has a very small population and land area”).
- (uncommon) A small nation (“historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and manifested in a common culture”).
noun
- (politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation, etc., may act independently of a central authority.
- (Christianity, Judaism, theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.
- An exclusive focus on a particular area, group, sect, etc.
- a focus on something particular
adj
- tending away from centralization, as of authority
- conveying information to the muscles from the CNS
- tending to move away from a center
- (botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
- Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
- (botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
noun
noun
- the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals
- the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other
- the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination
- love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
- A more extreme form of patriotism; the idea of a more extreme support for one's country, people or culture.
- (UK, Ireland) Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
- Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist).
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noun
noun
noun
- a separate and self-contained entity
- a special situation
- a vaguely specified concern
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- an action
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- an artifact
- an event
- a special abstraction
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
- (slang, euphemistic) A vulva or vagina.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (MLE) Alternative form of ting.
- (informal) A romantic couple.
- (MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (informal, used possessively, chiefly in the negative) That which is favoured; personal preference.
- (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- Corporeal object.
- (informal) A custom or practice.
- Whatever can be owned.
- (informal, used possessively, with "do") One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- A living being or creature.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- (informal, with the) The central point; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
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noun
adj
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- (Internet) Initialism of autonomous system.
- (Java programming language) Initialism of application server.
- (education, UK, historical) Initialism of Advanced Supplementary.
- (medicine) Initialism of ankylosing spondylitis.
- Initialism of Alström syndrome.
- (education, UK) Initialism of Advanced Subsidiary.
- (neurology) Initialism of Asperger's syndrome.
- (cardiology) Initialism of aortic stenosis.
- (US, Navy) Initialism of auxiliary submarine: a naval tender, a submarine tender that tends to submarines.
name
phrase
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- (uncountable) The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
- personal independence
- (government, countable) A self-governing country or region.
- (mechanics, uncountable) The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
- (philosophy, uncountable) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
- (Christianity, uncountable) The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.
- immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
noun
- An autonomous state under protectorate.
- (UK, historical) The office or position of the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.
- The authority assumed by a state over another state deemed inferior or dependent, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs but the protected state retains its nominal sovereignty.
- The office or position of protector (sense 5).
- (UK, historical) Government by a protector; especially, The Protectorate: government of England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1653 and 1659 under the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, later his son Richard Cromwell.
- a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty
noun
- The regulation by a person of their own behaviour without external control, governance, or monitoring.
- The regulation by an organization of its own operation without external control, governance, or monitoring.
- The regulation by a device or machine of its own operation without external control, governance, or monitoring.
noun
- government free from external control
- (by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- the authority of a state to govern another state
- (by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
- Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
- (countable) A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.
- Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.
noun
- the state of being controlled or governed
- the act of controlling or directing according to rule
- the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular
- a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
- an authoritative command
- (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered
- (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
- (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
- (countable, in the singular) A numbered provision within such kind of legislation.
- (law, often in the plural) A type of law made by the executive branch of a government, usually as authorized by a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
- (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
- (genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
- (medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
adj
noun
name
noun
- self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government
- Ellipsis of home rule class.
- The rule or government of an appendant or dependent country or subnational territory, as to some or all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country or territory itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country.
- (historical, especially) Self-government of the island of Ireland.
noun
- Any household, institution, or other organization that is run under such sovereignty or autocracy.
- A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.
- A government which exercises autocratic rule.
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
noun
- the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units
- A system of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority.
- (theology) Covenantalism.
- The belief that such a system is superior to other forms of government.
noun
- An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status and relationship to other states is undefined.
- A republic or commonwealth, as with the former Orange Free State, and especially as used for the current United Kingdom to refer to the Commonwealth period under Cromwell.
- (US, historical) Before the American Civil War, any of the states in which slaveownership was illegal.
- (grammar) A noun form in Afroasiatic languages contrasting with the construct state by the noun not being dependent (more commonly called absolute state, or indeterminate state if the specific language contrasts a determinate state with the construct state).
- (engineering) A condition of not being supported or constrained by outside forces.
- A Federal state, with allegiance to a larger entity, as currently with Germany, and earlier, the relationship between the states of the Holy Roman Empire and the Emperor, and later, the states of the German Empire under the Hohenzollerns.
- A political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state, as with the former Congo Free State and the former Irish Free State.
- any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War
noun
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- (music) A musical score.
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
verb
noun
- A non-autonomous entity that claims to be a sovereign state and mimics the actions of a state (with varying degrees of seriousness), but lacks any legal recognition and exists only on paper or in the mind of its creator; a micronational entity.
- Synonym of microstate (“a country that has a very small population and land area”).
- (uncommon) A small nation (“historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and manifested in a common culture”).
noun
- (politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation, etc., may act independently of a central authority.
- (Christianity, Judaism, theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.
- An exclusive focus on a particular area, group, sect, etc.
- a focus on something particular
noun
- the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals
- the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other
- the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination
- love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
- A more extreme form of patriotism; the idea of a more extreme support for one's country, people or culture.
- (UK, Ireland) Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
- Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist).
noun
adj
- Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.
- existing as an independent entity
- (Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).
- Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
- (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment
- (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
adj
noun
- (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
- (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- (by extension) A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
- (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
- (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
- lean flesh of any of several flatfish
- the underside of the foot
- the underside of footwear or a golf club
verb
adj
noun
adj
- Depending on itself; independent.
- (chemistry, of a dye) Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- (military, of a rank or appointment) Actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment.
- Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- (law) Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- (by extension) Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- being on topic and prompting thought
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something
noun
verb
adj
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- held from above and hanging down
- addicted to a drug
- relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
- contingent on something else
- Hanging down.
- Relying upon; depending upon.
- (of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms) Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
- (medicine) Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
- (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
noun
- a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
- (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
- (philosophy) dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.
- (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
adj
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- likely to be affected by something
- possibly accepting or permitting
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
noun
- some situation or event that is thought about
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
verb
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
adj
- tending away from centralization, as of authority
- conveying information to the muscles from the CNS
- tending to move away from a center
- (botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
- Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
- (botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.