momently
point in time
momentaneously
for a minute
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pinpoint
eyeblink
flicker
blink of an eye
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momentously
minute
momentarily
eyewink
mike
wink
instant
twink
twinkle
whileen
asudden
just now
ad hoc
heartbeat
while
flash
point
split-second
New York minute
tectonic
bittock
twiddle
wee
jiff
wayment
duck
forefeeling
on the spot
haut-pas
pro tem
moment
trice
whipstitch
hot minute
punctule
then
piecemeal
in stages
little by little
hang on
in the interim
in the meanwhile
bit by bit
hold on
ord
poinding
tinily
vaguely
now
time
transiently
mistily
very fast
ad interim
a.i.
in no time
half a mo
glance
micromomentary
in the nick of time
just in time
fractional
click
epochful
briefish
crisp
shortly
briefly
just
succinct
pro tempore
clart
bibble
snapshot
someway
wave
choreus
anon
skelly
cast
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succinct
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momentously
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piecemeal
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vaguely
transiently
mistily
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ad interim
a.i.
in no time
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someway
anon
flickeringly
point in time
spurt
pinpoint
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flicker
blink of an eye
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minute
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mike
wink
instant
twink
twinkle
whileen
heartbeat
while
point
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New York minute
bittock
twiddle
wee
jiff
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moment
trice
whipstitch
hot minute
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then
ord
poinding
now
time
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clart
bibble
snapshot
wave
choreus
skelly
cast
flash
duck
hang on
hold on
glance
click
noun
adv
prep_phrase
noun
- A point in time; a moment.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- A short but unspecified time period.
- A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
- A fixed part of a module.
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A while or a long unspecified period of time
verb
- To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
- Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
adj
noun
- A brief time; an instant.
- Synonym of periwinkle
- The smallest possible amount.
- A subtle allusion.
- An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”)
verb
- To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
- To close one's eyes.
- To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
- Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
noun
- A very short moment of time.
- Correction fluid or correction tape.
- The chaffinch.
- One or more very small, short bursts of light.
- A young, attractive, slim male, usually having little body hair.
- A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.
- A player (or character created by a player) in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game who engages in obnoxious or abusive behaviour, especially one who uses a higher level character to give advanced equipment to one of their own lower-level characters.
verb
adv
adj
noun
- A very short space of time; an instant.
- A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
- One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
- A driving impulse or vital force; the vital center of something.
- The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
verb
- To be visible briefly.
- To make visible briefly.
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To burst out into violence.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To perform a flash.
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To communicate quickly.
adj
- Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
- Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
- Having plenty of ready money.
- Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
noun
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pool.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A form of military insignia.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- A very short amount of time.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
noun
- an instant of time
- 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
- 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
verb
- 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
- give a point to
- repair the joints of bricks
intj
verb
- To enter a place for a short moment.
- To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- To evade doing something.
- To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To bow.
noun
- A long-necked medical urinal for men.
- A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- Trousers made of such material.
- A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- The flesh of a duck used as food.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- A cairn used to mark a trail.
- A playing card with the rank of two.
- Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
noun
noun
noun
- The smallest portion of time; an instant.
- Weight or importance.
- A fit; a brief tantrum.
- A brief, unspecified amount of time.
- A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.
- A petit mal episode; such a spell.
- (As in "X moment") An embarrassing event, supposed to be characteristic of some person, group, or situation.
- An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
- A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
noun
adv
adv
noun
adv
- in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
- in these times
- used to preface a command or reproof or request
- at the present moment
- without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
- (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity
- in the immediate past
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 look briefly (at something).
- To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
- A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.
- To sparkle.
- To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
- To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
- To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
- To graze at a surface.
noun
verb
- To make sense suddenly.
- To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
- To emit a click.
- To snap the fingers.
- To visit (a web site).
- Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
- To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
- To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
- To get along well.
- To take (a photograph) with a camera.
- To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
noun
- A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
- A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
- The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
- A pawl or similar catch.
- The latch of a door.
- The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.
- The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
- An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
- A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
- Sound made by a dolphin.
- A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
intj
adj
adj
- Brief and to the point.
- Sharp, clearly defined.
- having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
- Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
- Quick and accurate.
- Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- Dry and cold.
- Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
verb
noun
noun
- A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
- A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
- A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.
- A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity.
- A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
verb
adv
noun
- A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
- A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
- One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
- A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
- A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- The ocean.
- A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
- A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
verb
- To generate a wave.
- To swing and miss at a pitch.
- To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
- To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- To have an undulating or wavy form.
- To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
- To produce waves to the hair.
- To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
- To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
- To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
noun
noun
- A squint.
- Visual appearance.
- An object made in a mould.
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
- Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
- The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
- The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
- A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
- The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
- Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
- The casting procedure.
- The mould used to make cast objects.
- A group of crabs.
- An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
- An act of throwing.
verb
- To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
- To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
- To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
- Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
- To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
- To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
- To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
- To throw.
- To throw down or aside.
- To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
- To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
- To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
- To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
- To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
- To remove, take off (clothes).
- To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
- To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
- To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
- To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
- To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
- To assign (a role in a play or performance).
- To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
- To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
adj
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key man
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skeleton shrimp
air cooling
new field
Feeding on flesh
to take offence
arrogantly
quiet place
mechanical energy
to imbibe
side story
associate professor
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extolling
shed.
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financial difficulties
to incline.
annuity
to play it safe
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to have sex
to trip
stability
to shout
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