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noun
- A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
- An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
- A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
- A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
- A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
- The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
- A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
- A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
- An instance or event as a topic of study.
- A box, sheath, or covering generally.
- A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
- A suitcase.
- A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
- A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
- An enclosing frame or casing.
- A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
- Four of a kind.
- A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
- The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
- A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
adj
verb
suffix
- Added to occupational etc. nouns to form other nouns meaning the "art, craft, or practice of."
- Added to nouns to form other nouns meaning "a class, group, or collection of."
- Added to verbs to form nouns meaning "place of" (an art, craft, or practice).
- Added to nouns to form other nouns meaning "behavior characteristic of."
noun
- The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
- Payment for the temporary use of something.
- A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
verb
- To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
- To accept employment.
- To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
- To accomplish by paying for services.
- To exchange the services of for remuneration.
- (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job
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
- the act of using
- what something is used for
- 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
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- ask (for something)
- coat, cover or smear a surface with
- be applicable to; as to an analysis
- give or convey physically
- avail oneself to
- ensure observance of laws and rules
- refer (a word or name) to a person or thing
- apply oneself to
noun
- labour, occupation, job.
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
verb
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
verb
- To be established in a profession or in employment.
- To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- To silence, especially by force.
- To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- To become married, or a householder.
- To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- To kill.
- To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- To become compact due to sinking.
- To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
- To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- To pay (a bill).
- To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. also used figuratively.)
- To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
prep_phrase
- During one's official working hours; in or into a position of remunerated employment.
- In the official time remaining in a game or other sporting event.
- Displayed on the dial of a clock (timepiece).
- Displayed numerically on the mileage or kilometric gauge.
- In the official time expired in a game or other sporting event.
- Working at one's job; occupied in some manner during one's hours of remunerated employment.
- Of a taxicab, engaged for hire; displayed numerically as time or fare on the meter of a taxicab.
- Under scrutiny due to having to make a decision or produce results within a set period of time.
- Remunerated per unit of time.
noun
- A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
- Religious evangelism.
- An infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.
- A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
- A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.
- Third World charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
verb
noun
- a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- the responsibility to do something
- the performance of a piece of work
- a damaging piece of work
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a crime (especially a robbery)
verb
verb
- To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- To suffice.
- To finish.
- To fare, perform (well or poorly).
- To have (as an effect).
- A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
- A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- To take drugs.
- To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- To be reasonable or acceptable.
- To have sex with. (See also do it)
- To have as one's job.
- To cook.
- To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- To punish for a misdemeanor.
- To make or provide.
- A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
- To treat in a certain way.
- To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- Let’s do New York also.
- To kill.
- To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
- To impersonate or depict.
- To injure (one's own body part).
- To perform; to execute.
- To cheat or swindle.
noun
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
- A homicide.
- A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.
- Something that can or should be done.
num
verb
- To make use of; to employ.
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
- To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To repeat an activity in this way.
noun
- Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
- The structure and design of a system or product.
- Any particular style of building design.
- A unifying structure.
- The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
- A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
- A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
verb
- To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service.
- To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
- To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
- To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
- 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 have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
- 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
- The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
- A particular instance of buying or selling.
- Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
- Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
- An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
- The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
- Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
- A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
- A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
- Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
- Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
verb
- To recommend and get recommendations.
- To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
- To engage in trade.
- To mutually exchange (something) (with).
- To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
- To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
- To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
- To give (something) in exchange (for).
adj
noun
- The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- A public disputation by scholars.
- A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
- The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
- A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
- A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
verb
noun
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- A document that effects this transfer.
- An assigned task.
- The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
- An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
- A position to which someone is assigned.
- A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
verb
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
adj
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
noun
noun
- Profession or lifestyle.
- A polygon representing the shape of an item.
- The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.
- Availability of a satellite from the ground.
- The surface space occupied by a structure.
- The audit trail left by a crashed program.
- Space required by a piece of equipment.
- The ecological impact of a human activity, machine, etc.
- The amount of hard drive space required for a program.
- A company's geographic market presence.
verb
- assign to (a job or a home)
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- place somebody in a particular situation or location
- assign a rank or rating to
- assign a location to
- to arrange for
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
- locate
- estimate
- identify the location or place of
- make an investment
- assign to a station
- finish second or better in a horse or dog race
- sing a note with the correct pitch
noun
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- any area set aside for a particular purpose
- an abstract mental location
- a general vicinity
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- a particular situation
- where you live at a particular time
- a job in an organization
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- proper or designated social situation
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- the passage that is being read
- proper or appropriate position or location
- a public square with room for pedestrians
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- a blank area
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