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noun
- permission to do something
- the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty
- the act of departing politely
verb
- go away from a place
- go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness
- act or be so as to become in a specified state
- leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking
- move out of or depart from
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- produce as a result or residue
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- put into the care or protection of someone
- leave or give by will after one's death
- have left or have as a remainder
- be survived by after one's death
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- leave behind unintentionally
noun
- A licence or (formal) permission to do something.
- The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.
- A characteristic or quality that one possesses; in particular (hyperbolic) as if exclusively; a monopoly.
- An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.
- A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.
- A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.
- A product in respect of which a patent (sense 1.2.2) has been obtained.
- A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.
verb
- To (successfully) register (a new invention) with a government agency to obtain the sole privilege of its manufacture, sale, and use for a specified period.
- To obtain (over a piece of real property) a specific grant of ownership.
- To be closely associated or identified with (something); to monopolize.
adj
- Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.
- Protected by a legal patent.
- Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.
- To which someone has, or seems to have, a claim or an exclusive claim; also, inventive or particularly suited for.
- Explicit and obvious.
- Of a branch, leaf, etc.: outspread; also, spreading at right angles to the axis.
- Open, unobstructed; specifically, especially of the ductus arteriosus or foramen ovale in the heart, having not closed as would have happened in normal development.
- Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.
adj
verb
- make a logical or causal connection
- keep company with; hang out with
- bring or come into association or action
noun
- a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise
- any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another
- a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
verb
- To give permission or freedom to; accept.
- To authorize officially.
- To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation.
- To permit (as grammatically correct).
- To give formal authorization to use.
noun
- The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
- A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
- Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
- Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
noun
- A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.
- The right to vote at a public election or referendum; see: suffrage, suffragette.
- An acknowledgment of a corporation's existence and ownership.
- The membership of a corporation or state; citizenship.
- A legal exemption from jurisdiction.
- The collection of organizations in the history of a sports team; the tradition of a sports team as an entity, extending beyond the contemporary organization.
- The loose collection of fictional works pertaining to a particular fictional universe, including literary, film, or television series from various sources, generally when all authorized by a copyright holder or similar authority.
- The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
- The positive influence on the buying behavior of customers exerted by the reputation of a company or a brand.
- Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
- The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area.
- A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.
verb
verb
- To request permission to do something.
- To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To request or petition; usually with for.
- To invite.
- To take (a person's situation) as an example.
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- To request (information, or an answer to a question).
noun
verb
- consent to, give permission; permit
- make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
- let have
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something
- afford possibility
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- grant as a discount or in exchange
- allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
noun
- Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
- The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
- Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- Something that is owned.
- Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
- A territory under the rule of another country.
- The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madness.
- A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
noun
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- 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.
adj
verb
- 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.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- 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.
noun
noun
- a privilege
- recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful)
- a token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen
- the center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point)
- the state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity
- (courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank
- a cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
- a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended
- the privilege of going first
- In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
- the right to play one's ball before one's opponent.
verb
- to think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of
- to confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone)
- to make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.)
- to conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like)
noun
- A right to take possession.
- In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
- An act of following in sequence.
- A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- A race or series of descendants.
- A sequence of things in order.
- A passing of royal powers.
- Rotation, as of crops.
noun
- Official permission; authorisation to act in some capacity on behalf of a ruling entity.
- A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject.
- Persons, regarded collectively, who occupy official positions of power; police or law enforcement.
- A government-owned agency that runs a revenue-generating activity for public benefit.
- Status as a trustworthy source of information, reputation for mastery or expertise; or claim to such status or reputation.
- Power or right to make or enforce rules or give orders; or a position having such power or right.
noun
- the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)
- the right to enter
- a way of entering or leaving
- a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.)
- (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information
- the act of approaching or entering
verb
verb
- To take something into collective or governmental ownership
- To interact with others
- To instruct somebody, usually subconsciously, in the etiquette of a society
verb
- To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
- Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
- To be able to go.
- Expressing a present possibility; possibly.
- To gather may, or flowers in general.
- Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.
- To celebrate May Day.
noun
adj
noun
- The right or privilege of unrestricted use or access
- The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
- Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
- The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
- Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
verb
- allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of
- declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
- allow to enter; grant entry to
- admit into a group or community
- afford possibility
- give access or entrance to
- have room for; hold without crowding
- serve as a means of entrance
verb
verb
- retain rights to
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- retain possession of
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- conform one's action or practice to
- stick to correctly or closely
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- maintain by writing regular records
- supply with room and board
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- supply with necessities and support
- fail to spoil or rot
- behave as expected during of holidays or rites
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- have as a supply
- maintain for use and service
- hold and prevent from leaving
- prevent the action or expression of
- prevent (food) from rotting
noun
verb
noun
- A privilege.
- The privilege of going first.
- The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point).
- (Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
- In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
- A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen.
- A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
- The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity.
- Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful).
- A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
- The right to play one's ball before one's opponent.
verb
verb
- retain rights to
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- bring into safety
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- accumulate money for future use
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from sins
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- record data on a computer
noun
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