usance
habitual
accustomed
pressingly
wonted
customary
nomen appellativum
well-mined
employed
die
appellative
share
oft-used
hell
oft-mentioned
actualistic
old
common name
funct
vulgo
aphoristically
they say
for goodness' sakes
harp
-er
standard
cen-
misused
utilise
old-hat
hackneyed
banal
threadbare
real
really
tired
timeworn
exactly
trite
stock
rattling
very
commonplace
shopworn
well-worn
verbalism
wordage
Pelagius
Bohemond
base
employment
frequentistic
establish
solecism
frequentist
found
ground
take advantage of
verbal
use
Wikipedia
the
alright
exercise
utilization
nonusage
summon
mantra
misuse
usage
use to
using
put to use
utilisation
abuse
call up
drivel
-ess
hackney
-ed
typographic
adiaphora
appellativization
common cause
misnomer
overused
stalwart
stouthearted
habitual
accustomed
wonted
customary
well-mined
employed
oft-used
oft-mentioned
appellative
actualistic
old
funct
standard
misused
old-hat
hackneyed
banal
threadbare
tired
timeworn
trite
stock
commonplace
shopworn
well-worn
frequentistic
frequentist
verbal
alright
hackney
typographic
overused
stalwart
stouthearted
pressingly
vulgo
aphoristically
real
really
exactly
rattling
very
usance
nomen appellativum
appellative
common name
verbalism
wordage
employment
solecism
use
exercise
utilization
nonusage
mantra
misuse
usage
using
utilisation
abuse
adiaphora
appellativization
common cause
misnomer
die
share
harp
utilise
base
establish
found
ground
take advantage of
Wikipedia
summon
use to
put to use
call up
drivel
noun
verb
- followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
- followed by of; general use
- To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- To yearn intensely.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
- To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To lose a game.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- followed by with as an indication of manner
noun
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- Any small cubical or square body.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
verb
- To have or use in common.
- To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
- To tell to another.
- To divide and distribute.
- To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network
noun
- The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
- The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
- A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
- A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
- A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
- The sharebone or pubis.
adj
intj
- Used to emphasize.
- Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.
- Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.
verb
noun
- A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- A place for gambling.
- An extremely hot place.
- Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
name
adv
adj
adj
suffix
- Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs.
- A thing that is related in some way to the root, such as by location or purpose.
- Used to form diminutives.
- Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.
- A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.
- Used to form nouns shorter than more formal synonyms.
- A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
- More; used to form the comparative.
- Person or thing connected with.
- Suffix denoting residency in or around a place, district, area, or region.
- A person who is associated with, or supports a particular theory, doctrine, or political movement.
- A suffix creating adjectives from verbs, indicating aptitude, proneness, or tendency toward a specified action
- Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually a portion of the given name.)
- Suffix denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun); used to form a demonym.
- Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs.
- A person whose occupation is the root noun; (more broadly, occasionally with adjectives) a person characterized by the root.
- A person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies.
prefix
adv
adj
- not to be taken lightly
- capable of being treated as fact
- being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
- (of property) fixed or immovable
- coinciding with reality
noun
adj
- being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory
- no less than what is stated; worthy of the name
- of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation
- having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
noun
adj
noun
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- a supply of something available for future use
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- an ornamental white cravat
- any animals kept for use or profit
verb
verb
- use as a basis for; found on
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
adj
- serving as or forming a base
- of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- illegitimate
- debased; not genuine
noun
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- lowest support of a structure
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- the bottom or lowest part
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- a lower limit
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a support or foundation
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
verb
- use as a basis for; found on
- fix firmly and stably
- confine or restrict to the ground
- place or put on the ground
- instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject
- bring to the ground
- hit or reach the ground
- throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field.
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- connect to a ground
noun
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle)
- the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused
- a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
- (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
noun
- The act of using.
- A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
- Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
- Usefulness, benefit.
- A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.
- A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
- The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
verb
- To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
- To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
- To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
- To expend; to consume by employing.
- To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
- To employ; to apply; to utilize.
- To exploit.
- To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
- To suggest or request that other people employ a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
verb
- Used intransitively.
- Used with an object denoting the information sought or obtained.
- Used with an object denoting the specific article consulted.
name
- A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).
- The community that develops the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
- A free-content online encyclopedia founded in 2001, collaboratively developed over the World Wide Web in a number of languages.
noun
article
- Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
- Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
- Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
- Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
- Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
- When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
- Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it hints at is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already completely specified.
- Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
- Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
- Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
prep
adv
noun
- the act of using
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
verb
noun
noun
suffix
- Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.
- Used to form possessional adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.
- As an extension of the above, used to form possessional adjectives from adjective-noun pairs.
- Used to form past participles of (regular) verbs. See -en and -t for variants.
noun
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whistling
harmful effect
mutant strain
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to take care
to constrict
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to stand up.
to play a dirty trick
doddering
gyro
hydroxyl group
non-player character
blank disk
hoary.
Not fragrant
to combine with
endoscope
Playful
RTF
a pencil with very soft lead.
mobile network carrier
difficult to approach
readership
fulfilment of a vow
psyche
vagrancy
estrogen
pinch
finches
cephalic
news anchor
whisky
crop failure
Obvious
freezing point
a pimp.
lack.
genuine article
offset
bow-wow
sullenly
put in order
admission fee
to appoint
erect
consistency
A town in Maine
charming