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adj
adj
adj
- Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
- True, valid, of explanatory strength.
- Beneficial; worthwhile.
- Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
- Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
- Reasonable in amount.
- Accepting of, OK with
- Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
- Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
- Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
- Effective.
- Favourable.
- Unblemished; honourable.
- Very, extremely. See good and.
- Large in amount or size.
- Full; entire; at least as much as.
- Ready
- Healthful.
- Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
- Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
- Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
- Having a particularly pleasant taste.
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- Competent or talented.
- Holy (especially when capitalized) .
adv
noun
- The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
- An item of merchandise.
- A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
verb
- To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
- To benefit; gain.
- To make improvements or repairs.
- To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
- To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
- To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
- To make good; turn to good; improve.
intj
noun
- Something that is useful.
- A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
- The ability to play multiple positions.
- The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
- The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
- Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- A natural or legal areal monopoly distributer of a commodity (less often a service) delivered in continuous flows to multiple consumers from a common physical, infrastructural network, such as an electric company or water company; or, the securities of such a provider.
adj
- containing or intended for any of a building’s often-utility-related commodity transport, such as pipes or wires, or converting equipment, such as furnaces, water tanks or heaters, circuit breakers, central air conditioning units, laundry facilities, etc.
- Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
- Functional rather than attractive.
adj
- Pertaining to or demonstrating purpose.
- Serving a particular purpose; adapted to a given purpose, especially through natural evolution.
- Done or performed with a conscious purpose or intent.
- Possessed of a firm purpose.
- Pertaining to purpose, as reflected in behaviour or mental activity.
- Of a clause or conjunction: expressing purpose.
verb
- give something useful or necessary to
- cause to become
- give an interpretation or rendition of
- give or supply
- pass down
- make over as a return
- give back
- to surrender someone or something to another
- show in, or as in, a picture
- coat with plastic or cement
- bestow
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
noun
verb
- give something useful or necessary to
- present for acceptance or rejection
- agree freely
- put forward for consideration
- offer verbally
- make available for sale
- propose a payment
- produce or introduce on the stage
- present as an act of worship
- mount or put up
- make available; provide
- ask (someone) to marry you
- threaten to do something
noun
verb
- give something useful or necessary to
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation
- mount or put up
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- supply means of subsistence; earn a living
- take measures in preparation for
adj
noun
- something used to achieve a purpose
- motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
- an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.
adv
verb
- have in mind as a purpose
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- expect, believe, or suppose
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- imagine or visualize
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- have or formulate in the mind
- be capable of conscious thought
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
noun
verb
- have in mind as a purpose
- mean or intend to express or convey
- have as a logical consequence
- denote or connote
- have a specified degree of importance
- intend to refer to
- destine or designate for a certain purpose
noun
adj
- approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
- characterized by malice
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- marked by poverty befitting a beggar
- (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
- (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
- of no value or worth
- very good; of the highest quality
noun
- what something is used for
- the act of using
- a particular service
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
- exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage
- (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property
verb
- put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
- take or consume (regularly or habitually)
- use up, consume fully
- seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage
- avail oneself to
- habitually do something or be in a certain state or place (use only in the past tense)
noun
- what something is used for
- (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- a relation such that one thing is dependent on another
- a formal or official social gathering or ceremony
- a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
verb
adj
adj
- Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function
- Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
- Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture
- Of a disease, such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.
- In good working order.
noun
- A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function whose argument varies in a space of (real or complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example is the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.
- A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
- An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).
noun
- Something useful or valuable.
- Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.
- Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin, as distinguished from branded products.
- Anything which has both a use-value and an exchange-value.
- Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
verb
- To become relevant, applicable, or useful.
- To begin transmitting.
- To enter.
- To finish a race or similar competition in a particular position, such as first place, second place, or the like.
- To finish a race or similar competition in first place.
- To become fashionable.
- To have a strong enough signal to be able to be received well.
- To join or enter; to begin playing with a group.
- To rise.
- To arrive.
- To fully develop.
- To become available.
- To give in; to yield.
- To surrender; to turn oneself in.
- To function in the indicated manner.
verb
- To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
- To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
- To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
- To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.
- To be in, or come into, gear.
adj
noun
- Recreational drugs, including steroids.
- Clothing; garments.
- A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other; a gear wheel.
- A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
- Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
- A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
verb
noun
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- A way of motion or functioning.
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- Fast-paced activity.
- The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
- The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar or other string instrument.
- A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.
- The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Combat.
- spin put on the bowling ball.
- The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
intj
adj
verb
adj
noun
- A small, blocky, military-style vehicle with four-wheel drive, suited to rough terrain.
- A light utility truck from WWII used by the U.S. Army, and subsequently turned into the trademark Jeep when civilianized by originating manufacturer Willys-Overland.
- A device for detecting discontinuity in a protective coating, also called a "holiday detector"
- A covered shopping cart, also called a "shopping stroller".
- A sport utility vehicle or similar four-wheel-drive vehicle.
verb
noun
- An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool, or an opportunity or pretext.
- The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
- A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
- A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol.
- The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components in exactly one point.
- The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments.
- A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional balls.
- A 10 fluid ounce (285 mL) glass of beer.
- A point, an extremity of land.
- The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience, and other qualities perceived by touch.
- A name, nickname or pseudonym.
- A title attached to one's name, such as Doctor or Colonel.
verb
- To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
- To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
- To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
- To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
- To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm; to commit handball.
- To use the hands.
- To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
- To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
- To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).
- To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
- To manage, control, or direct.
- To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
adj
- appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs
- socially right or correct
- in or into a satisfactory condition
- intended for the right hand
- in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
- having the axis perpendicular to the base
- (of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward
- (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- precisely accurate
adj
- being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north
- free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
- in conformance with justice or law or morality
- correct in opinion or judgment
- of or belonging to the political or intellectual right
verb
- make reparations or amends for
- put in or restore to an upright position
- regain an upright or proper position
- make right or correct
noun
- an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature
- location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
- the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right
- those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged
- the hand that is on the right side of the body
- a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east
- anything in accord with principles of justice
- (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing
adv
- precisely, exactly
- immediately
- completely
- toward or on the right; also used figuratively
- in the right manner; correctly; suitably
- an interjection expressing agreement; Yes, you are indeed correct
- (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
- to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely
- in accordance with moral or social standards
- in an accurate manner
verb
noun
- Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
- A set of clothing (with accessories).
- A fiscal year of the Hudson's Bay Company, or the supplies required for such a period.
- An outlier-sensitive fit.
- Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
- A sports team.
- A business or firm.
noun
- Something which helps; a material source of help.
- Help; assistance; succor, relief.
- An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
- A helper; an assistant.
- An exchequer loan.
- A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
- The rider's use of hands, legs, voice, etc. to control the horse.
verb
verb
- To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
- To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
- To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service.
- To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
- To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
- To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
- To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
- To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
- To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
- To perform (a public obligation).
- To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
- To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
- To present an attractive personal appearance.
- To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
- To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
- To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
- To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
- To be in military service.
- To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
- To work, to operate (a weapon).
- To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
noun
noun
- An object or idea that can be used for good.
- A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
- Used as a form of address when warning someone.
- A spring-loaded camming device.
- A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
- A person who backs or supports something.
- A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
- Used to refer collectively to a group of associated individuals, especially those comprising a cast, company, or crew
- A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
- An associate who provides assistance.
verb
adj
verb
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
- come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- make a discovery, make a new finding
- obtain through effort or management
- decide on and make a declaration about
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
- get or find back; recover the use of
- succeed in reaching; arrive at
- accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
noun
verb
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- bring forth, usually something desirable
- result or issue
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- come to the surface
- originate or come into being
- move upward
- be mentioned
- start running, functioning, or operating
- come up, of celestial bodies
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- gather or bring together
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