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noun
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
- A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
- A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
noun
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- A positive result of a test.
- An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
adj
- Not negative or neutral.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Optimistic.
- Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Of number, greater than zero.
- Having more protons than electrons.
- HIV positive.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Formally laid down.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- electropositive
- Fully assured in opinion.
- Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
adj
adj
- Very important.
- Invigorating or life-giving.
- Containing life; living.
- Necessary to continued existence.
- Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
- Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
- Relating to the recording of life events.
- Relating to, or characteristic of life.
verb
noun
verb
- give a point to
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- be oriented
- direct into a position for use
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- sail close to the wind
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- be positionable in a specified manner
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- repair the joints of bricks
noun
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- an instant of time
- the object of an activity
- a V shape
- a very small circular shape
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- an outstanding characteristic
- sharp end
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a wall socket
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
noun
- A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
- The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.
- A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year).
adj
noun
- The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
- The top of the food chain.
- The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.
- The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
- A conical priest cap.
- The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane.
- The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support.
- The growing point of a shoot.
- The deepest part of a tooth's root.
- A diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that indicates /ŋ͡m/.
- A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute.
- The lowest part of the human heart.
- The point on the celestial sphere toward which the Sun appears to move relative to nearby stars.
- A sharp upward point formed by two strokes that meet at an acute angle, as in "W", uppercase "A", and closed-top "4", or by a tapered stroke, as in lowercase "t".
- The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid.
noun
noun
noun
- A decision point.
- In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- The crotch.
- A tuning fork.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
- A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A forklift.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
verb
- To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- To kick someone in the crotch.
- To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- To bale a shaft dry.
- To shoot into blades, as corn does.
noun
noun
- A critical moment or event.
- A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
- A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
- The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
- A shortage.
- A problem that leads to a crisis.
- A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
- A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
- The symbol #.
verb
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
- To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
- To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
- To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
- To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
- To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
adj
- Very important; of high importance.
- Necessary.
- Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
- Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Really existing; existent.
- Having the nature of essence; not physical.
- Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
- Idiopathic.
noun
noun
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noun
- the relative importance granted to something
- the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
- sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
- an artifact that is heavy
- an oppressive feeling of heavy force
- a system of units used to express the weight of something
- a unit used to measure weight
- (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
verb
phrase
noun
- a particular point in time
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- an indefinitely short time
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
- following the first in an ordering or series
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- a speech seconding a motion
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
adj
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noun
- Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
- Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
- An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
- The basic structural component of the universe, usually having mass and volume.
- An approximate amount or extent.
- Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
- A kind of substance.
verb
- To point out.
- To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
- To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
- To discover game.
- To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
- To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
- To determine or judge.
- To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- Locate on behalf of another
- To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
noun
noun
noun
- a particular point in time
- an indefinitely short time
- at this time
- having important effects or influence
- a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
- the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
noun
noun
adj
noun
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- a seat of government
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
noun
- A sharp point.
- One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
- A tusk shell.
- A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).
- The share of a plough.
- A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
- A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
verb
noun
- Relative importance.
- A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
- The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
- Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
- A gaseous projection, often loop-shaped, springing from the surface of the Sun or a star.
noun
- The degree of importance given to something.
- The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
- The relative duration of a musical note.
- That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
- Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
- Precise meaning; import.
verb
noun
- A point in time.
- The date palm.
- The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
- A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
- One's companion for social activities or occasions.
- A pre-arranged meeting.
- The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
- Assigned end; conclusion.
- A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
verb
- To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
- To determine the age of something.
- To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
- To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
- To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
- To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
- To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
noun
- relative importance
- the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
- a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10
verb
verb
- be relevant to
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- perceive via the tactile sense
- affect emotionally
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- have an effect upon
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- be equal to in quality or ability
- tamper with
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- comprehend
- consume
- color lightly
noun
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- a suggestion of some quality
- a distinguishing style
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a communicative interaction
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
- deftness in handling matters
- the feel of mechanical action
noun
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
verb
verb
- To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
- To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
- To mean, signify.
- To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
- To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
- To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
- To be of importance to (someone or something).
noun
noun
- Emphasis or importance in general.
- A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
- The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
- A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
- A manner of pronunciation suggesting that the speaker is from a different region; a foreign accent.
- Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
- A word; a significant tone or sound.
- A mark used to represent this special emphasis.
- Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
- A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
- Expressions in general; speech.
- A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
- Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
- A prime symbol.
- A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
- A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
- The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
verb
verb
noun
noun
- A general description giving the most important points.
- a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
verb
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